 | Constance M. Whishaw - 1908 - 402 pages
...thing that you might be, the thing that God gave you a chance to be." PHILLIPS BROOKS. JANUARY 6 " 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... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1908 - 236 pages
...in striving to define his ideal wrote that his endeavor was, " to seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich." In characterizing the quiet of Charles Lamb, Walter Pater uses this method with greater elaboration:... | |
 | 1909 - 136 pages
...to such a philosophy this world will give up all the empty joy it has. MY SYMPHONY DAVID SWING. 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... | |
 | 1909 - 136 pages
...to such a philosophy this world will give up all the empty joy it has. DAVID SWING. 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 bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry... | |
 | 1904 - 484 pages
...with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 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... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 936 pages
...moment I but ask That you'll remember me. Balfes Opera, "The Bohemian CirL' CHANNING'S 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 bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry... | |
 | William Wallace Stetson - 1911 - 252 pages
...as we do as well as we know, we shall breed children who will live up to Channing's high ideal : To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather...respectable ; and wealthy, not rich ; to study hard, think quickly, talk gently, act frankly ; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with open hearts... | |
 | Sir Narayen Ganesh Chandavarkar - 1911 - 668 pages
...wrong. The pessimist is making it go wrong. If you and I, dear reader, whatever we are, learn and try " 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," our motherland... | |
 | Bertha M. Terrill - 1911 - 260 pages
...wealthy, not rich 1$ to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, ,d frankly €J to listen to the tars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart ^ to bear all cheerfully tj to do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never ^ in a word, to let the spiritual unbidden and unconscious,... | |
 | James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - 1914 - 394 pages
...Voyage. WORDSWORTH : The \\~ishing-Gate. BROOKS : The Beauty of a. Life of Service. 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 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... 
