Phillips Brooks

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"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks."	Equality, Life, Men
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."	Character, Excellence, Men
"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."	Art, Life, Men
"The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man."	Men, Religion
"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. "	Friends, Life, Writing
"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."	Age, Art, Music
"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. 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 that he was meant and made to do."	Ambition, Desires, Excellence
"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."	Help, Music, Religion

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