21 William Ellery Channing Quotes For Students And Kids

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William Ellery Channing Quotes For Kids And Students

1. “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” ― William Ellery Channing

2. “Error is discipline through which we advance.” ― William Ellery Channing

3. “Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do.” ― William Ellery Channing

4. “Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.” ― William Ellery Channing

5. “Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.” ― William Ellery Channing

6. “Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.” ― William Ellery Channing

7. “Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speeds towards it.” ― William Ellery Channing

8. “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 aid them to judge for themselves.” ― William Ellery Channing

9. “In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.” ― William Ellery Channing

10. “It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds.” ― William Ellery Channing

11. “It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge that determines the mind’s dignity.” ― William Ellery Channing

12. “May your life preach more loudly than your lips.” ― William Ellery Channing

13. “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

14. “Peace is the fairest form of happiness.” ― William Ellery Channing

15. “Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.” ― William Ellery Channing

16. “The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.” ― William Ellery Channing

17. “The great hope of society is in individual character.” ― William Ellery Channing

18. “The home is the chief school of human virtues.” ― William Ellery Channing

19. “The world is governed by opinion.” ― William Ellery Channing

20. “To educate a child perfectly requires profound thought, greater wisdom than to govern a state.” ― William Ellery Channing

21. “Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.” ― William Ellery Channing