 | 1899 - 676 pages
...goal of perfect contentment. zation of the unprofitableness of mere artificial aids to happiness : To live content with small means ; to seek elegance...respectable, and wealthy, not rich ; to study hard, think quickly, talk gently, act frankly ; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1899 - 64 pages
...work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it." Psalm xc: 17. MY SYMPHONY. TO LIVE content with small means ; to seek elegance...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... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - 1899 - 424 pages
...pathetic eloquence he said, ' ' It is, indeed, forbidden me to write or speak, but not to aspire and be. To live content with small means; to seek elegance...than "fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,~not rich; to <io all cheerfully, bear Iall oravely; tcT listen to stars and birds, to "babes'... | |
 | Edith Augusta Sawyer - 1899 - 386 pages
...to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must have ingulfed us. Henry James. November 8. To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, to listen to stars and birds,... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1900 - 616 pages
...he can tell his position within a hundred yards by observations of the stars. — SIMON NEWCOMB. e. To live content with small means; to seek elegance...stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart ; await occasions, hurry never ; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up... | |
 | 1900 - 682 pages
...and hope that nothing will prevent his keeping our next conjunction. HELPS, HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS. 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... | |
 | George Allen Hubbell - 1900 - 84 pages
...habits of thought and action which would make Channing's Symphony a reality in individual experience.1 1 To live content with small means ; to seek elegance...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... | |
 | Cortland Myers - 1900 - 558 pages
...his Rider come down the skies in everlasting triumph, self-sacrifice shall carry the crown of glory. To live content with small means ; to seek elegance...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... | |
 | 1900 - 596 pages
...formula for a successful and harmonious life, I would choose the words of William Henry Channing : "To live content with small means; to seek elegance...fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, but not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds,... | |
 | 1900 - 870 pages
...not rich : to study hard, think quietly, talk 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 never — In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.... | |
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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... 
