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William Ellery Channing Quotes
«The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.»
«Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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Ideas
| Keywords:
breathed, regenerate, regenerated, regenerates, regenerating
«Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
boisterous, excite, frame of mind, mirth, recur, refresh
«Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteem»