Famous Quotes / William Ellery Channing
37 Quotations by William Ellery Channing
- 21. Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fa ...
- 22. Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fa ...
- 23. No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; ...
- 24. No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; ...
- 25. No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
- 26. Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
- 27. One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
- 28. Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, revie ...
- 29. The world is governed by opinion.
- 30. The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
- 31. To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
- 32. To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa ...
- 33. True love is the parent of humility.
- 34. Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
- 35. We grow by love... others are our nutriment.
- 36. We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our wor ...
- 37. We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the ...