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.
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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.William Ellery Channing
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
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Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.
William Ellery Channing
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learnings altar vanish from the plain.
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