 | Thomas Parker Boyd - 1920 - 178 pages
...means, To seek elegance rather than luxury, Refinement rather than fashion ; To be worthy, not simply rich; To study hard, think quietly, Talk gently, act frankly ; To listen with open heart to birds and stars, To babes and sages ; To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely; Await... | |
 | Abraham Mitrie Rihbany - 1922 - 326 pages
...Channing, a wise man from the West, has given a fine charter for the life of a true gentleman. He says: To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather...quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and buds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions,... | |
 | Ernest Dudley Chase - 1926 - 396 pages
...probably was the forerunner of the second era of American greeting cards, we reprint : MY SYMPHONY To live content with small means . . to seek elegance...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, hurry... | |
 | 1899 - 538 pages
...Normal School Life's Symphony To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, 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,... | |
 | George Jefferis Jordan - 1927 - 168 pages
...depth all equal. WH Channing describes the proportion and poise of such a character in My Symphcny: 'To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather...open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, wait occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Severina Elaine Nelson - 1927 - 408 pages
...honesty a preparation for fraud, virtue only a want of opportunity, and undeniable purity, asceticism. To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather...listen to stars and birds, babes, and sages with open hearts; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1927 - 328 pages
...counted, it does not register; the picking up and going on counts in life.—Flora Howard. MY SYMPHONY. To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather...gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to hear all cheerfully, do all bravely await occasions, hurry... | |
 | 1909 - 534 pages
...hand went up slowly. "Well, William," said the teacher. "Pleathe, ma'am, the skin of a unit." 84 85 To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather...listen to stars and birds, babes and sages with open hearts ; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never ; in a word, to let the... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Severina Elaine Nelson - 1927 - 408 pages
...honesty a preparation for fraud, virtue only a want of opportunity, and undeniable purity, asceticism. To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather...and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly. EMPHASIS l5l talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, babes, and sages with open hearts;... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1912 - 608 pages
...children cannot exactly play with it, but they can watch for the boiling point and the bubbles. To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather...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, hurry... | |
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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... 
