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Living Content
by William Henry Channing
[quotation]
“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 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, never hurry.
In a word, to let the spiritual unbidden and unconscious, grow up through
the common.
This is my symphony.”