4 Phillips Brooks Quotes on Life

Phillips Brooks quotes on life

2. For greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

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

5. Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.

6. No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

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