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Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838

Book by William Ellery Channing · 3 quotes · Men, Lying, May

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“There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.”

“Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.”