Quote by Phillips Brooks
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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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

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Ill walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. – Emily Bronte

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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature – thats where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us were busy denying. – Sue Grafton

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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. – John Muir

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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more. – Alexander Pope

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