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

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Topic

Locus of control

Author

William Ellery Channing

Source

Self-Culture

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Theologian Clergyman

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

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Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

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Topic
Pantheism Interconnectedness of all things

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source
Nature
Language
English
Time
1836 1830s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures. Library of America, 1983, ch. 1.