“It is not painter or sculptor who is making himself most nobly immortal. It is he who is making true impressions upon the mind of man; frescoes for eternity, that will not shine out till the light of heaven reveals them; sculptures, not wrought in outward things, but in the inward nature and character of the soul.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 22

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American clergyman and activist 1813–1887

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