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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, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-de-witt-talmage/oh-if-you-could-only-hear-intemperance-with-drunkards-bones-drumming/)

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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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