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If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.


Geraldine Brooks

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GARTH BROOKS Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
GARTH BROOKS You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
GARTH BROOKS Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
GARTH BROOKS Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
GARTH BROOKS You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
GARTH BROOKS True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
GARTH BROOKS I just love to see people having a good time.
GARTH BROOKS Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
THOMAS BROOKS He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
THOMAS BROOKS Needy people are like newborns, I have come to realize. One intoxicated night and BAM! You are stuck...
CHASE BROOKS It just comes from not doing anything and eating my momma's cooking. After my surgery, I was in the ...
AHMAD BROOKS It means we can play with the big dogs. It's a big confidence boost.
AHMAD BROOKS It was real tense. We just needed someone to make a play.
AHMAD BROOKS It was frustrating. It was kind of like last week [against Duke], when I was on the sidelines. You r...
AHMAD BROOKS I had some pressure [on that play]. I threw my hand in his face. That was all I could do. They weren...
AHMAD BROOKS It was my first time playing outside linebacker, this weekend, so it's kind of hard to pick up every...
AHMAD BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 19...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Chr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If man is man a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Slowly, all through the universe, that temple o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 Only when a man tri...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 A large acquain...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Luke the Evangelist No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Chris...
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...
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