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,
babes and sages with open heart
to study hard, to think quietly,
act frankly, talk gently,
await occasions, hurry never in
in a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common...
-this is my symphony.
William Ellery Channing
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