“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,
to all bravely await
occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious
grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.”
-William Henry Channing
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