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“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”

William Ellery Channing · Knowledge

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William Ellery Channing

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.

Communication

William Ellery Channing

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

Life

William Ellery Channing

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

Intelligence

William Ellery Channing

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

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