Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes - Page 10

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• The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Allies, Littles, Christianity

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• The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Order, Long, Intellectual

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• A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, May, Politics

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• He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Business, Ambition, Crowns

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• Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Night, England

  "The Armada". Poem by Thomas B. Macaulay, l. 34, 1833.

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• The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Sound, Praise

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Lines Written In August”

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• That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Book, Simple

  "On Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1831.

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• In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Lakes, Order

  "On Fredrick the Great" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1842.

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• Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Spoons, Diners, Eating

  "Political Georgics" by Thomas B. Macaulay, June 29, 1831.

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• The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Counting, Sects

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• There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, School, Government

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• Boswell is the first of biographers.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Firsts, Biographers

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• Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north,
  With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red?
  And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?
  And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Wine, Hands, Feet

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “The Battle Of Naseby”

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