George Bancroft

US Historian and Statesman

(1800-1891)

{They don't make them this good anymore......}

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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed

than the prejudices of interest;

the first are all blindly adopted,

the second willfully preferred.

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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Like truth and justice it lives within us;

like virtue and the moral law

it is a companion of the soul.

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Conscience is the mirror of our souls,

which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself,

were it possible.

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