Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.


Carol Channing

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WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING
True love is the parent of humility.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vainIf learning's altar vanish from the plain.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The great hope of society is in individual character.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their use...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our wor...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to se...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our wo...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Through the vulgar error of undervaluing what is common, we are apt indeed to pass these by as of li...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when th...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the f...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The great hope of society is in individual character
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The divine attributes are first developed in ourselves, and thence transferred to our Creator. The i...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each mome...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faith.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for wha...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent: but these a...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Life has a higher end,than to be amused.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING