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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
George Bancroft / Historian
Avarice
Greed
Vices
Years
Declining
Vice
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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
George Bancroft / Historian
Critics
Public Speaking
Wiser
Critic
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If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?
George Bancroft / Historian
Heavy
Hours
Scandal
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Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft / Historian
Respect
Authority
No Respect
Patriotic
People
Rights
Obtain
Possess
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The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
George Bancroft / Historian
Civilization
People
Progress
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Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.
George Bancroft / Historian
Age
Genius
Library
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
George Bancroft / Historian
Deception
Dishonesty
Grasping
Honesty
Hype
Deceive
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Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.
George Bancroft / Historian
Seeds
Style
World
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The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
George Bancroft / Historian
Government
Men
Class
Rights
Fears
Measure
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Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
George Bancroft / Historian
Desire
Fit
Mean
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
George Bancroft / Historian
Disappointed
Nine
Slander
Ten
Tongue
Belongs
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I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.
George Bancroft / Historian
Jesus
Names
Pages
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It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
George Bancroft / Historian
Kings
Government
Calvinism
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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
George Bancroft / Historian
Truth
Decision
Faculty
Mind
Criterion
Nearest
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft / Historian
Life
Conscience
Errors
Mirrors
Our Lives
Full
Lives
Mirror
Represents
Shape
Souls
Which
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft / Historian
Consent
Envy
Glory
Gray
Crown
Excite
Hairs
Object
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By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft / Historian
Respect
Crowns
Envy
Hair
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
George Bancroft / Historian
Life
Truth
Amusement
Character
Truth Is
Depend
Neighbors
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Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
George Bancroft / Historian
Lap
Libertine
Luxury
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The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
George Bancroft / Historian
Fall
Rain
Real
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Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.
George Bancroft / Historian
Government
Eagles
Fall
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Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.
George Bancroft / Historian
Example
Humanity
Justice
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.
George Bancroft / Historian
Wisdom
Wise
Ignorance
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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.
George Bancroft / Historian
Adopted
Ignorance
Interest
Blindly
Easily
Preferred
Second
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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
George Bancroft / Historian
Government
Brute Force
Civilization
Mind
Wealth
Brute
Degree
Exact
Measure
Prevailed
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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.
George Bancroft / Historian
Beauty
Truth
Companion
Infinite
Law
Moral
Moral Law
Sensible
Soul
Virtue
Within
Image
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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.
George Bancroft / Historian
Life
Justice
Law
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The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft / Historian
Government
Authority
Development
Opinion
Patriotic
People
Persons
Public Opinion
Best Free People
Best Government People
Free
Public
Few
Rests
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In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.
George Bancroft / Historian
History
Men
Knowing
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The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.
George Bancroft / Historian
Life
Flower
Natural Instinct
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?
George Bancroft / Historian
Character
Joy
Stories
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