Dawn Quote by Phillips Brooks

“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.” quote by Phillips Brooks — Download Open image

“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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Dawn Life Littles Purpose Shapes Tasks Whole

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Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night…

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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point…

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