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Phillips Brooks [1835-1893] American

Rank: 101
Clergyman

Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts, and particularly remembered as lyricist of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.	Life, Patience	101
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.	Forgiveness	102
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.	Happiness, Inspirational	103
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.	Christmas, Music	104
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.	Good, Knowledge, Work	105
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.	Good	106
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.	Great	107
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.	Power	108
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.		109
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.	Music, Religion	110
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.		111
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.		112
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.		113
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.	Motivational	114
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.	Wisdom	115
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'	Easter	116
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.		117
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.	Sad	118
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!		119
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.	Home	120
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.		121
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.	Inspirational	122
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.		123
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.		124
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.		125
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.		126
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.		201
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.		202
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.		203
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.		204
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.		205
Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.		206
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.		207

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