Error is discipline through which we advance.William Ellery Channing
“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
— WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Unitarian Minister & Writer · 1780 – 1842
William Ellery Channing, American clergyman and the leading voice of Unitarian Christianity in the early 19th century. His sermons and essays championed self-culture, abolition and social reform.
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