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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godwar

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. – 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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Thanksgiving Day
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Phillips Brooks
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No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. – Phillips Brooks

Category:
Goodness
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Phillips Brooks
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It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. – Phillips Brooks

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Life
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Phillips Brooks
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Other Quotes from
Wish, Wishes, Wishing
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman –dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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Wish, Wishes, Wishing

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. – Source Unknown

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Wish, Wishes, Wishing

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. – Claudius

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Wish, Wishes, Wishing

Random Quotes

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso, quoted in Time, October 1976

Category:
Inner Child

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Tyranny

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. – Audre Lorde

Category:
Society

A word also as to the cost of carriage: This is at present so high, whether the means be mail or express, that we may properly set it down as the chief obstacle to the free development of inter-library loans. – William Warner Bishop, “Inter-Library Loans,” 1909

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Libraries