All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, … - William Ellery Channing

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It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it. '

William Ellery Channing

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

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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 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.

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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.

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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

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Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

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