William Ellery Channing Famous Quotes
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
"To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth."
"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."
"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance."
Error is discipline through which we advance.
"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."
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage."
"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves."
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
William Ellery Channing Quotations
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Doug Floyd
"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."
Joe Moore
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
Harper Lee
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley
"Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done."
A E Hotchner
"This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.
William Wordsworth
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Ernesto Che Guevara