 | Mary Eleanor Kramer - 1917 - 322 pages
...motto in heraldic Latin, " Excelsior." 180. The following is William Henry Channing's " My Symphony " : To live content with small means, to seek elegance...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. 181. As... | |
 | Percy Frazer Smith - 1918 - 352 pages
...keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee.' MY SYMPHONY. TO LIVE content with small means; to seek elegance...await occasions ; hurry never ; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This will be my symphony. — William... | |
 | John Reinder Pelsma - 1918 - 516 pages
...war ! Hurrah ! hurrah ! for Ivry and Henry of Navarre ! The Battle of Ivry. MACAULAY. MIDDLE KEY 1. To live content with small means, to seek elegance...gently, act frankly ; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never... | |
 | Leonard G. Nattkemper, George Wharton James - 1919 - 776 pages
...perish from the earth. Channing's "Symphony" is another interesting illustration of musical prose: To live content with small means, to seek elegance...gently, act frankly ; to listen to. stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart ; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never... | |
 | John Macphail Waggett - 1919 - 274 pages
...friends, his words were, "It is, indeed, forbidden me to write or speak, but not to aspire and be. To live content with small means; to seek elegance...worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to do all cheerfully, bear all bravely ; to listen to' stars and birds, to babes and sages, with an open... | |
 | 1906 - 566 pages
...ring with the true philosophy of life, and scholars of no musical attainment can understand it fullv : To live content with small means, To seek elegance rather than luxury, Refinement rather than fashion. To be Worthy, not respectable; wealthy, not rich; To study hard, think... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1920 - 76 pages
...has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it. — Robert Browning. ... .50 .25 98— MY SYMPHONY. To live content with small means; to seek elegance...and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to hear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual,... | |
 | 1899 - 488 pages
...commonplace poems, but the best for various occasions. See "Mother Hubbard Illustrated" on page 31. To live content with small means; to seek elegance...gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions hurry never;... | |
 | James Henry Hawley - 1920 - 922 pages
...than **>*»; to be worthy, not respectable, wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think "' tallc Eentlv> act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. 'Vvord, to let the spiritual,... | |
 | Thomas Parker Boyd - 1920 - 178 pages
...Hard Knocks can with full understanding say, "Blessed be the Name of the Lord." [115] LIFE'S SYMPHONY To live content with small means, To seek elegance rather than luxury, Refinement rather than fashion ; To be worthy, not simply rich; To study hard, think quietly, Talk... | |
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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 study hard, think quietly... 
