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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
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Boston
Massachusetts
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Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
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Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
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For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all No palace too great, no cottage too small.
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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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Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
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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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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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The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.
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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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Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.
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Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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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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Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.
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We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
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It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.
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Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.
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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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