"Do we not hear voices, gentle and great,……" — William Mountford
"Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, Come up hither?"
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William Mountford
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8 Quotes by William Mountford
William Mountford has 8 quotes on this site.
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I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength…
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Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it…
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... science and speculation pass into mystery at last.
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To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows…
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With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death…
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To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow…
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This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a…
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More Departed Quotes
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry.…
— Tertullian
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I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to…
— Joan of Arc
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The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it,…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
— Thomas Browne
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But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my…
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
— Jane Austen
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Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
— Jean Paul
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When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a…
— Wilford Woodruff
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The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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