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Results of search for Author: Phillips Brooks - Page 1 of 1
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
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Results from Classic Quotes:

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

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.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
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.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)

Results from Poor Man's College:

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
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 (1835 - 1893)
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)

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