When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.


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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
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
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object howe...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -W...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet t...
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