William Ellery Channing Quotes & Sayings
35 most famous William Ellery Channing quotes and sayings (writer). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.”
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
“Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.”
“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.”
“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”
“God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.”
“Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.”
“Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.”
“The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.”
“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
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