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George Bancroft Quote

“The public is wiser than the wisest critic.”

— George Bancroft

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

— George Bancroft

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It is when the hour of conflict is over that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, "Lo, God is here, and we knew Him not!"

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Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

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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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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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