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.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.William Ellery Channing
The world is governed by opinion.
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Habitat of castle gray, Creeping thing in sober way, Visible sage mechanician, Skillfulest arithmetician.
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Error is discipline through which we advance.
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I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, which does not cower to human opinion, which feels itself accountable to a higher tribunal than man's, which respects itself too much to be the slave of the many or the few.
William Ellery Channing
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.
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