"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, do 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."
~ William Ellery Channing (1780-1842); the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States during the early 19th century; best known for his articulate & impassioned sermons & public speeches, & as a prominent thinker in the liberal theology of the day;
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