Phillips Brooks's Quote - No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree

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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. – Phillips Brooks

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. – Phillips Brooks

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Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. – Phillips Brooks

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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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