"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."
-William Ellery Channing
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"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
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues."
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"The great hope of society is in individual character."
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"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven."
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"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
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"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
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