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William Ellery Channing

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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.


— William Ellery Channing


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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.


— William Ellery Channing


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Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.


— William Ellery Channing


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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.


— William Ellery Channing


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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.


— William Ellery Channing


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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.


— William Ellery Channing


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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.


— William Ellery Channing


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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.


— William Ellery Channing


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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.


— William Ellery Channing


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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.


— William Ellery Channing


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About William Ellery Channing






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In 1835 Channing wrote the book entitled SLAVERY James Munroe and Company publiWilliam Ellery Channingr. However the struggle continued through two years during which Channing lived in Richmond working as a tutor. He lived through the increasing tension between religious liberals and conservatives and took a moderate position rejecting the extremes of both groups.

William Ellery Channing (April 7 1780 – October 2 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and along with Andrews Norton one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. He was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches and as a prominent thinker in the liberal theology of the day.

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