Every age has been illustrated by men who bore themselves like men
Every age has been illustrated by men who bore themselves like men, and vindicated the cause of human nature - men who, in circumstances of great trial, have adhered to moral and religious principle, to the cause of persecuted truth, to the interests of humanity, to the hope of immortality - who have trodden underfoot the fairest gifts of fortune and the world in the pursuit of duty. This is the greatest value of history, that it introduces us to persons of this illustrious order; and its noblest use is by their examples to nourish in us a conviction that elevated purity of motive and conduct is not a dream of fancy, but that it is placed within our reach, and is the very end of being. -William Ellery Channing
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