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William Ellery Channing Quotes about Life

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

William Ellery Channing
Inspirational, Life, Happiness
William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

William Ellery Channing
Life, Responsibility, Influence
William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.285

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

William Ellery Channing
Life, Inspire, Ends
William Ellery CHANNING (1837). “An Address on Temperance, etc”, p.52

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.

William Ellery Channing
Life, Fun, Grateful

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

William Ellery Channing
Life, Two, Moments

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