God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
More Quotes from William Ellery Channing:
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.William Ellery Channing
Everything here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within.
William Ellery Channing
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
William Ellery Channing
Error is discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
William Ellery Channing
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