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We can fix our eyes on perfection and make almost everything speed towards it.

We can fix our eyes on perfection and make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing ↗

Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial

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William Ellery Channing
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Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 493; printed byline: W. E. Channing; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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