Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "W" » William Ellery Channing Quotes
«All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.»
«He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.»
«The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.»
«To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.»
«Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.»
«It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.»
«Through the vulgar error of undervaluing what is common, we are apt indeed to pass these by as of little worth. But as in the outward creation, so in the soul, the common is the most precious.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
undervalue, undervalued, undervalues, undervaluing
«A wail in the wind is all I hear;A voice of woe for a lover's loss.»
«Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.»
«But the ground of a man's [sic] culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
