No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
-- William Ellery Channing
   
William Ellery Channing   Name:
William Ellery Channing
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
American
Birth:
April 7, 1780
Death:
October 2, 1842
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