"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."
-William Ellery Channing
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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.“
-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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"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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"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
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