“Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.”
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Famous William Ellery Channing Quotes
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838
“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
Source: The complete works of W. E. Channing, D. D., with an introduction
“Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.”
Source: Lectures on the Elevation of the Laboring Portion of the Community
Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838
Source: Discourses, reviews, and miscellanies
Source: The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...
Source: The Works of William E. Channing
Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838
“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”
Source: Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community
“The home is the chief school of human virtues.”
Source: (411 p.)
“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.”
“Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.”
Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838
Source: The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...