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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.

Phillips Brooks

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Phillips Brooks

Music

Christianity

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Phillips Brooks

Home

Charity

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Phillips Brooks

Faults

Forget

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Phillips Brooks

Faults

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.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Phillips Brooks

Life

Understanding

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

Phillips Brooks

Life

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Phillips Brooks

Prayer