192 Quotes by Phillips Brooks


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    The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young....

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    We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

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

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    The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

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