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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
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Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.
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The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
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