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 listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. this is my symphony.
タグ: wisdom, life, harmony

"William Ellery Channing"の他の名言

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
タグ: ignorance, growth, knowledge, nature
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
タグ: must, spirit, energy, youth
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
タグ: give, than, anything, yourself
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
タグ: duty, who, will, you
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
タグ: name, intelligence, truth, god
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