The great hope of society is in individual character.
William Ellery Channing
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- The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
- 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.
- Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
- Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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