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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.

Phillips Brooks

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
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Boston
Massachusetts
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Decree
Human
Completely
Humans
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Strange
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Quality
Future
Nature
Decrees

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