 | Robin Williams - 1998 - 244 pages
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...life's purpose. William Henry Channing, nephew of the great William Ellery, titled his "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 an open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, never... | |
 | Chaim Stern - 2000 - 388 pages
...one another. William Ellery To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than Channmg luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be...rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act grandly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully,... | |
 | David E. Shi - 2001 - 354 pages
...Channing, succinctly expressed their credo: "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather ihan luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be...study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly. . . . This is my symphony." The Transcendentalist symphony included many variations on this theme,... | |
 | J. S. Kirtley - 2003 - 616 pages
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 | Sarah McElwain - 2003 - 128 pages
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 | H. T. Brashears - 2003 - 208 pages
...a quote that came to me like a fortune cookie, it reached out at me from the back of a tea box. "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather...and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, to talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart;... | |
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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... 
