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 listen to stars and birds,
babes and sages, with open heart
to study hard
to think quietly
act frankly
talk gently
await occasions, hurry never
in a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden, and unconscious,
grow up through the common
-this is my symphony,
-William Ellery Channing
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