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William Ellery Channing

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The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and with out, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering.

—William Ellery Channing, Self-Culture

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To cultivate any thing, be it a plant, an animal, a mind, is to make it grow, the care which every man owes to himself, to the unfolding and perfecting of his nature...We have the power not only of tracing our powers, but of guiding and impelling them, not only of watching our passions, but of controlling them, not only of seeing our faculties grow, but of applying to their means and influence to aid their growth. We can stay or change the current of thought. We can concentrate the intellect on objects which we wish to comprehend. We can fix our eyes on perfection and make almost every thing speed us towards it.

William Channing

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