Quotes by George Bancroft

George Bancroft

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Greed

Vices

Years

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.

Justice

Law

Life

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Envy

Hair

Respect

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Errors

Life

Mirrors

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

Deception

Honesty

Hype

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

Desire

Fit

Mean

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

Jesus

Names

Pages

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

Heavy

Hours

Scandal

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

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Mind

Truth

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.

History

Knowing

Men

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Quotes by George Bancroft

George Bancroft

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

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.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

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

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

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.

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