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Phillips Brooks - From the Advice category:
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Character category:
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Commitment category:
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Desire category:
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Encouragement category:
To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Experience category:
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Future category:
Very stange 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)
Phillips Brooks - From the Generosity category:
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. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Genius category:
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Goals category:
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Hope category:
We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Humility category:
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Idealism category:
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Life category:
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Patience category:
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Prayer category:
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Religion category:
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Silence category:
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. (Phillips Brooks)
Phillips Brooks - From the Time category:
If you could only know and see and feel, all of a sudden, that 'the time is short,' how it would break the spell. How you would go instantly and do the thing, which you might never have another chance to do! (Phillips Brooks)
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