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 listen to stars and birds and babes and sages with
an open heart. To study hard, think quietly, act frankly, talk gently,
await occasions. Hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, the
unbidden and the unconscious rise up through the common. This is my
symphony.
-- William Henry Channing
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