37 Quotations by William Ellery Channing
- 1. All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

- 2. All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work ef ...

- 3. An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golde ...

- 4. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

- 5. Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

- 6. Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what ...

- 7. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which ...

- 8. Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do wh ...

- 9. Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

- 10. Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

- 11. Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

- 12. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the ...

- 13. Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to ...

- 14. He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.

- 15. Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not ...

- 16. It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable mean ...

- 17. It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object howe ...

- 18. It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

- 19. Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

- 20. Most joyful the Poet be;
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