192 Quotes by Phillips Brooks

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    Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.

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    The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

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    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."

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    Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

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    The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

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    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.

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    Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

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