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Letter "W" » William Ellery Channing Quotes
«Everything here but the soul of man is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
destinies, enduring, glorious, immortal, passing, perils, sublime, substance, The Perils of, the sublime
«Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
grandeur, humblest, in force, moral character, moral force, moral principle, The Force
«Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| About:
Self-sacrifice,
Work
| Keywords:
First to, undoubtedly
«Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| About:
Conscience,
Influence,
Mankind,
Work
| Keywords:
carry on, exert, peculiarly
«The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
reveries, waste of energy, yearnings
«The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
accursed, brand, concentration, distinguishing, fraud, Here is, malignity, perfidy, prey, rapacity, slew, war crime
«Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent: but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
apartments, celebrity, eastern, endowment, endowments, illuminating, impartially, kindles, modes, opulent, sends, The Apartments, valley, worthless
«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.»
«Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.»
«There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when...to dare is the highest wisdom.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
multitudes, seasons, thirsted, undefined, unfolded
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