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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. – Phillips Brooks

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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

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sad
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The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. – Phillips Brooks

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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as Gods children. – Phillips Brooks

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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. – James Russell Lowell

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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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