It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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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
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learnings altar vanish from the plain.
William Ellery Channing
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
William Ellery Channing
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
William Ellery Channing
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing
Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.
William Ellery Channing
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