Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1919 — Creed That May Well Be Applied in Life Each Day [ARTICLE]

Creed That May Well Be Applied in Life Each Day

To Mve content with small means: To seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion: To be worthy, not respectable, 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.—Williaro Ellery Channing.