"To
live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and
refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not
rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to
stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully,
do all bravely, await occasions, hurrying never. In a word, to let the
spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be
my symphony.” ~ William Ellergy Channing
(Masterpieces of Religious Verse)
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