"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
― Phillips Brooks
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More From Phillips Brooks
- "Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."
- "Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there."
- "The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is."
More In Great
- "Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty."― Marcus V. Pollio
- "Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."― Winston Churchill