Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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Life has a higher end, than to be amused.William Ellery Channing
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
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We can fix our eyes on perfection, and make almost everything speed towards it.
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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing
We are judged not by the degree of our light but by fidelity to the light we have.
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