Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longerDeath is strong, but Life is strongerStronger than the dark, the lightStronger than the wrong, the right...
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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.Phillips Brooks
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond but most people only look at it and so they see only the dead letter.
Phillips Brooks
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Phillips Brooks
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 he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks
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
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I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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