William Ellery Channing Quotes

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing

Inspirational, Love, Faith

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
William Ellery Channing

Great, Spiritual, Judge

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing

Strong, Human, Spirit

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
William Ellery Channing

Power, Society, Knowledge

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing

Best, Wise, Mind

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing

Him, Read, Volume

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
William Ellery Channing

Influence, Measured, Surface

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

Character, Meant, Exactly

The world is governed by opinion.
William Ellery Channing

Politics, Opinion, Governed

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

Work, Happiness, Men

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
William Ellery Channing

Life, End, Higher

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
William Ellery Channing

Life, God, Spiritual

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing

Everything, Eyes, Almost

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

God, Truth, Human

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing

Knowledge, Mind, Quality

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

Character, Human, Others

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

Present, Duty, False

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

Great, Men, Best

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
William Ellery Channing

Become, Another

The great hope of society is in individual character.
William Ellery Channing

Great, Hope, Society

The home is the chief school of human virtues.
William Ellery Channing

Home, School, Human

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing

Nature, Life, God

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
William Ellery Channing

Smile, Ignorance, Person

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
William Ellery Channing

Through, Grow, Stage

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
William Ellery Channing

Yourself, Give, Rather

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 7, 1780

Died: October 2, 1842

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