Top 5 quotes from William Ellery Channing
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
"Error is discipline through which we advance."
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage."
"To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony."
"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance."
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