Sunday, January 22, 2017

Influence

Others are affected by what I am and say and do.  And these others have also their sphere of influence.  So that a single act of mine may spread in widening circles through a nation or humanity.

-       W. E. Channing[1]



[1] This may refer to Dr. William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the first half of the 19th century; or it may refer to his namesake nephew, William Ellery Channing (1818-1901) the Transcendentalist poet.

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