Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.William Ellery Channing
The great hope of society is in individual character.
William Ellery Channing
Everything here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within.
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.
William Ellery Channing
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.
William Ellery Channing
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
William Ellery Channing
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