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Iron hand in a velvet glove.

William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing

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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
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We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
— William Ellery Channing
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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.
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We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
— William Ellery Channing
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I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves.... Indeed every man (sic), in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions.
— William Ellery Channing
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