Self-Culture. An address introductory t...
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Source: Essays, Literary & Political
“We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.”
“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.”
“All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene”
Source: (420 p.)
“To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.”
“Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.”
Source: The Liberal Gospel: As Set Forth in the Writings of William Ellery Channing
Source: The Works of William Ellery Channing
Source: (XXX, 387 p.)
Source: Remarks on the character and writings of Fenelon
“A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.”
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
Source: Memoir of William Ellery Channing, with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts ...
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.”
“Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life”
Source: (411 p.)
“The great hope of society is in individual character”
Source: Remarks on the character and writings of Fenelon
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
“Life has a higher end, than to be amused”
Source: An Address on Temperance, etc
Source: The complete works of W.E. Channing
Source: The Liberal Gospel: As Set Forth in the Writings of William Ellery Channing
Source: The Works of William E. Channing
“Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.”
Source: The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...
“No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.”
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
“Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.”
“The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.”
“The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.”
Source: The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...
Source: A selection from the works of William E. Channing
“A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.”
Source: The Perfect Life: In Twelve Discourses
Source: The Works of William E. Channing
Source: Memoir: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts
“Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.”
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838
“God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.”
Source: A discourse on same of the distinguishing opinions of Unitarians, delivered at Baltimore in 1819. ...
Source: The Works of William E. Channing
“What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!”
Source: The Perfect Life: In Twelve Discourses