“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
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Famous William Ellery Channing Quotes
“The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.”
“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: Lecture on War
“I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.”
“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