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Quotes by Bishop Henry C. Potter
If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent, -a character in them that bear rule so fine and high and pure that as men come within the circle of its influence they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, -the royalty of virtue.— filed under Ancestry
We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jeffersonian vulgarity.— filed under Disappointment