“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 quiet, 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 occasion, hurry never;

In a word, to let the spiritual,

Unbidden and unconscious

Grow up through the common.”

William Henry Channing

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