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Hope Society William Ellery Channing

The great hope of society is in individual character.

– William Ellery Channing

Happiness Success William Ellery Channing

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

– William Ellery Channing

Government Happiness William Ellery Channing

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

– William Ellery Channing

Faith Inspirational Love William Ellery Channing

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

– William Ellery Channing

Communication Nature William Ellery Channing

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

Best Men William Ellery Channing

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

– William Ellery Channing

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