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.
-- 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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