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It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.
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Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
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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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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
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Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
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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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We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
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Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
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Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
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Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
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To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
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Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
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The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
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