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If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

- William Ellery Channing | Poets and Poetry Quotes

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 study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.

- William Ellery Channing | Happiness Quotes

We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.

- William Ellery Channing | Helping Other People Quotes

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

- William Ellery Channing | Faith and Unity Quotes

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

- William Ellery Channing | One Day Quotes

All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly.

- William Ellery Channing | Positive Quotes

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

- William Ellery Channing | Right Quotes

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

- William Ellery Channing | Getting Going Quotes

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

- William Ellery Channing | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

- William Ellery Channing | Adversity Quotes

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

- William Ellery Channing | Biography Quotes

The great hope of society is individual character.

- William Ellery Channing | Character Quotes

The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.

- William Ellery Channing | Christ Quotes

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

- William Ellery Channing | Immortality Quotes

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read them.

- William Ellery Channing | Man Quotes

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

- William Ellery Channing | Self-Reliance Quotes

What distinguishes war is, not that man is slain, but that he is slain, spoiled, crushed by the cruelty, the injustice, the treachery, the murderous hand of man.

- William Ellery Channing | War Quotes