"Happiness is the natural flower of duty." — Phillips Brooks
"Happiness is the natural flower of duty."
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Phillips Brooks
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102 Quotes by Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks has 102 quotes on this site.
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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at…
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of…
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the…
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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