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«Conscience is an oracle of the Divinity.»
«The essential and unbounded mercy of my Creator is the foundation of my hope, and a broader and surer the universe cannot give me.»
«I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which it has deliberately espoused.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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accidental, bends, deliberately, espouse, espoused, espousing, passively, swept
«To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.»
«Difficulty is the element, and resistance the true work of a man.»
«It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all.»
«No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.»
«Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothers»
«It is better to plan less and do more»
«Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie»
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