"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."
-William Ellery Channing
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"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.“
-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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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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