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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

1838

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Channing, William Ellery. "Self Culture." Franklin Lecture. Sept. 1838, Boston, MA, USA.

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