 | Henry Albert Stimson - 1902 - 180 pages
...women that we are. That birth in Bethlehem made possible such an ideal and rule of life as this: " 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 and think quietly, act... | |
 | Medicine - 1916 - 616 pages
...delicate "Symphony" by William Henry Channing : "To live content with small means ; to seek elegance rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable;...study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, etc." of the people and rules of health, set forth with the original touch of which Dr. Corwin is master,... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Literary Criticism - 1886 - 518 pages
...field. To be a workingman, poor, humble ; to perform without show or shunning menial services ; to live content with small means ; to seek elegance rather...hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly ; to have an oratory in my own heart, and present spotless sacrifices of dignified kindness in the temple... | |
 | Medicine - 1914 - 528 pages
...CHEMICAL MFG. CO., NEW YORK, USA - 2When Writing to Our Advertisers, Please Mention The Medical Herald. TO live content with small means— to seek elegance...all cheerfully — do all bravely, await occasions — never hurry; in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.... | |
 | 1892 - 434 pages
...Channing's 'My Symphony' as largely expressive of Mr. Keator's attitude and spirit. It is as follows: "'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, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry... | |
 | Christian Science - 1894 - 614 pages
...seek elegance rather than luxury : refinement rather than fashion ; to be worthy, not respectable; wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly ; to listen to stare and birds, babes and sages, with open heart ; to bear all cheerfully : do all bravely : await... | |
 | Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms - Education - 1900 - 718 pages
...against the other; one grasping and scheming to enslave the other, the other feeling that its not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly; await occasions; hurry, never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - Education - 1898 - 1156 pages
...as we do as well as we know, we shall breed children who will live up to Channing's high ideal : To live content with small means ; to seek elegance rather...gently, act frankly ; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with open hearts ; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1896 - 604 pages
...luxury, Refinement rather than fashion ; To be worthy, not simply respectable; And wealthy, not simply rich ; To study hard, think quietly, Talk gently, act frankly; To listen with open heart to birds and stars, To babes and sages ; To bear all cheerfully ; do all bravely ;... | |
 | 1897 - 588 pages
...they are withdrawn will be found to be perfectly correct. — NY Medical Journal. His IDEAL. — To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather...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... | |
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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... 
