"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."
-William Ellery Channing
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"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.“
-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."
-William Ellery Channing
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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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