“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 gently, act frankly,
to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all
cheerfully, to all bravely await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the
spiritual unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my
symphony.”
“Faith is the deep want of the soul. We have faculties for
the spiritual, as truly as for the outward world. God, the foundation of all
existence, may become to the mind the most real of all beings. The believer
feels himself resting on an everlasting foundation.”
“Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or
soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both
continents would not compensate for the good they impart.” - William Henry Channing
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