William Ellery Channing Quotes

Error is discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing

Through, Discipline, Error

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

Work, Human, Conscience

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

Nature, Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Life, Love, Character

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

Happiness, Success, Easy

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

Great, Important, Far

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
William Ellery Channing

Experience, Nothing, Lost

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing

Good, Worth, Biography

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

Made, Energy, Youth

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Ellery Channing

Himself, Labor, Condition

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 7, 1780

Died: October 2, 1842

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