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 do 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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