| Henry Albert Stimson - 1902 - 180 pagini
...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... | |
| 1916 - 616 pagini
...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 - 1886 - 518 pagini
...harvest field. To be a workingman, poor, humble ; to perform without show or shunning menial services ; to live content with small means ; to seek elegance...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... | |
| 1892 - 434 pagini
...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... | |
| 1894 - 614 pagini
...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... | |
| 1915 - 220 pagini
...Miss Xellie C. Sullivan, president Ideal School Women's Club. * * * MY SYMPHONY Win. Henry Channing. To live content with small means; to seek elegance...bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grown up through the common.... | |
| Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms - 1900 - 718 pagini
...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 - 1898 - 1156 pagini
...soon 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...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 - 1896 - 604 pagini
...chords Will strike another when in turn you seek. — John Bogle O'Reilly. SATURDAY. Symphong of Life. To live content with small means ; To seek elegance rather than luxury, Refinement rather than fashion ; To be worthy, not simply respectable; And wealthy, not simply rich... | |
| Theodore Thornton Munger - 1897 - 72 pagini
...sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory." But here is what Mr. Charming called, " My Symphony " : " To live content with small means ; to seek elegance...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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