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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. - Phillips Brooks
" "Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
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About Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 – January 23, 1893) was a noted United States clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s.
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Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now... Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
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