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Henry Codman Potter was a bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States. He was the seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Potter was "more praised and appreciated, perhaps, than any public man in New York City's long list of great citizens". Wikipedia  

✵ 25. May 1835 – 21. July 1908
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Henry Codman Potter Quotes

“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.”

Henry Codman Potter

Address at the Washington Centennial Service in St. Paul's Chapel, New York, April 30, 1889.

“We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.”

Henry Codman Potter

Address at the Washington Centennial Service in St. Paul's Chapel, New York, April 30, 1889.

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