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He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an instant and utter reflex of stillness to counteract all outward evidence of surprise, fear, anything.


Ellery Queen

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WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Error is discipline through which we advance.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the lea...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fa...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do wh...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, revie...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened 'Briars;' go out upon tha...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Worship God by reverencing the human soul as God's chosen sanctuary. Revere it in yourselves, rever...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial...
GEORGE ELLERY HALE The world is governed by opinion.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished;...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, auth...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING