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
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Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Phillips Brooks
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Phillips Brooks
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
Phillips Brooks
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.
Phillips Brooks
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
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.
Phillips Brooks
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Against,
Greatness,
Height,
Humble,
Nature,
Real,
Show,
Smallness,
Some,
Stand,
Stoop,
Than,
True,
Until,
Way,
Will,
Your,
Yourself
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