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Quote by Phillips Brooks
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life

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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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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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. – John, Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms

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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. – Joseph Campbell

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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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