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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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The home is the chief school of human virtues. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right? ↗

— Abel Ferrara

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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. ↗

— 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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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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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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