Phillips Brooks House

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“O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The Everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.”
—Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)

“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”
—Wendell Phillips (1811–1884)

“Nothing and nothing could stop Mississippi.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“But the house of the prudent countryman will be, of course, a place of honest manners; and Demeter Thesmophoros is the guardian of married life, the deity of the discretion of wives. She is therefore the founder of civilised order.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)