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To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

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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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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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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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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 a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
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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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Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
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Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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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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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
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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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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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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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The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
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