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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 study hard, think quietly, talk frankly; to listen to
stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully,
do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common: this is to be
my symphony.
-- William Henry Channing
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