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If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Would
Intemperance
Sweep
Hardly
Poverty
Left
Country
Enough

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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.
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It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.
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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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Anger is self-immolation.
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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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I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.
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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
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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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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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