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> [The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the front door to go in, you would see it in the hall; and, when you sat at your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/the-rum-fiend-would-like-to-go-and-hang-up-a-skeleton-in-your/)

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## More by Thomas De Witt Talmage

> [Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/logic-has-its-use-and-metaphysics-has-its-use-but-neither-of-them-is/)

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> [One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/one-good-hearty-laugh-is-a-bombshell-exploding-in-the-right-place/)

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> [Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/social-dissipation-as-witnessed-in-the-ball-room-is-the-abettor-of/)

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> [I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/i-move-for-a-creed-for-all-our-denominations-made-out-of-scripture/)

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> [Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/oh-if-you-could-only-hear-intemperance-with-drunkards-bones-drumming/)

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> [You are a free man, and let no organization come between you and your best interests. Do not let any man, or any body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/you-are-a-free-man-and-let-no-organization-come-between-you-and-your/)

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> [A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/a-lawyer-is-sometimes-required-to-search-titles-and-the-client-who/)

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> [The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/the-mob-that-hounded-christ-from-jerusalem-to-the-place-of-a-skull/)

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> [If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/if-the-bones-of-all-those-who-have-fallen-as-a-prey-to-intemperance/)

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> [In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/in-the-lottery-of-life-there-are-more-prizes-drawn-than-blanks-and-to/)

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> [A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/a-mother-is-a-bank-where-i-deposit-all-my-worries-and-hurts/)

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> [If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/if-your-path-had-been-smooth-you-would-have-depended-upon-your-own/)

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> [I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/i-wish-that-i-could-marshall-all-the-young-to-an-appreciation-of-the/)

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> [You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/you-can-graduate-a-man-s-progress-in-religion-by-the-amount-of-prayer/)

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> [What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/what-may-we-expect-of-people-who-work-all-day-and-dance-all-night/)

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