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Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.


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PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 To hold your truth, to beli...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 I hear men praying eve...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Wherever soul...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie!...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apos...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: W...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Beginning a series on the person of Jesus: I read the words and ponder them, but most of all I loo...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes it m...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Orthodoxy is, i...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 What is the Christian? ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If the true rev...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The tests that we have done have not substantiated these claims.
ALLAN BROOKS I try to come every year, to support the fire department. This is a lot better than McDonald's, and ...
ALLAN BROOKS There are scores of inquisitive people visiting the Archbishop's House to simply have a look at this...
ALLAN BROOKS They receive them based on their quality systems, which means that they would have shown strict adhe...
ALLAN BROOKS It is something really bizarre, but one must appreciate the skill of the man who tried this phenomen...
ALLAN BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS At least the box is full of something useful. On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran
AVERY BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to fla...
MEL BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly w...
MEL BROOKS Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h...
MEL BROOKS I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writ...
MEL BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
THOMAS BROOKS I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
BROOKS ATKINSON If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
GARTH BROOKS The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t...
BROOKS ATKINSON I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
BROOKS ATKINSON A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
PHILLIPS BROOKS A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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