The playbook is like a phone book,


Channing Crowder

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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fa...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do wh...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, revie...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened 'Briars;' go out upon tha...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Worship God by reverencing the human soul as God's chosen sanctuary. Revere it in yourselves, rever...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The world is governed by opinion.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished;...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, auth...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object howe...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -W...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet t...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING
True love is the parent of humility.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vainIf learning's altar vanish from the plain.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING