118 ordspråk av William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing föddes den 7 april 1780 och dog den 2 oktober 1842
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I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which it has deliberately espoused.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

Difficulty is the element, and resistance the true work of a man.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all.

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothers

It is better to plan less and do more

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.

Ideer

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteem

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