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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

Phillips Brooks

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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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Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
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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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The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
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While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
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If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
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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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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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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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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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The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
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O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.
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To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple for it belongs not to this earth alone.
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