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There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

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Phillips Brooks
Age: 57 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 13
Died: 1893
Died: January 23
Clergyman
Hymnwriter
Priest
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Achievement
None
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Necessary
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Attempt

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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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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
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Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
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To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
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Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.
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Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
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Newton's great generalization, which he called the third law of motion, was that Action and reaction are always equal to each other and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.
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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
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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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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 trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
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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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There are two ways of defending a castle one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?
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Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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Christ will rise on Easter day!
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If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
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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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