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Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
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Boston
Massachusetts
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Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
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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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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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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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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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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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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
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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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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
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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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The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
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There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.
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