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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark. David Herbert Lawrence		Monday May 19, 2025
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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

Quote Author: George Bancroft

George Bancroft

George Bancroft

George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 - January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

Other George Bancroft Quotes

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

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

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Westward the star of empire takes its way.