 | 1924 - 460 pages
...with the hope that if errors are found you will notify Albert F. Wenrich. A Life Purpose My purpose is to live content with small means; to seek elegance, rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy and respectable; to be wealthy, not rich; to study hard,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1900 - 566 pages
...chapter, and the leading thought in the year's calendar, for the plan for the toasts. "To live content wUh small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury,...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... | |
 | 1901 - 498 pages
...rest of his life he wants to be young again." • "This is my symphony," says William Ellery Channing: "To live content with small means; to seek elegance...rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and weathy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds,... | |
 | 1909 - 54 pages
...artist-engineers. Few men have put this thought in a more striking way than William Ellery Channing. Remember it. "To live content with small means; to seek elegance...than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages with open... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pages
...small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy ... to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await... | |
 | James S. Hewett - 1988 - 516 pages
...seek elegance rather than luxury, ami irf hiemrnt rather than fashion; To he worthy, not respectahle. and wealthy, not rich; To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act feankly; To listen to stars and hirds, to hahes and sages, with open heart; To hear all cheerfully,... | |
 | Elizabeth Roberts, Elias Amidon - 1991 - 486 pages
...through all the universe . . to be with us to: Teach us, and show us the way. CHINOOK BLESSING LITANY lo live content with small means, to seek elegance rather...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... | |
 | Harry B. Dunbar - 1995 - 264 pages
...followed it, has been gratifying. To paraphrase William Henry Channing, you made it possible for me "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... | |
 | Albert Haberstro - 1996 - 114 pages
...with whom I can be silent. MY SYMPHONY William Henry Charming "To live content with small-means — to seek elegance rather than luxury., -and refinement...gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart — to bear all cheerfully, to do all bravely, await occasions,... | |
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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... 
