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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller th

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

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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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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind. – Phillips Brooks

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