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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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden. – 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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There is no wealth but life. – John Ruskin

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. – Thomas Carlyle

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do. – Proverb

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. – Tony Robbins

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