Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes - Page 10

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• To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Nomenclature

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• The end of government is the happiness of the people.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, People, Ends

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• To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Hate, Two

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• In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lying, Silence, Mind

  "On Warren Hastings" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1841.

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• [I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Writing, Mathematics, Abomination

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• Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Progress, Spain, Holland

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• The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Enemy, Good Humor

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• Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Fashion, Names, Honor

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• The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lines, Milton, Circumstances

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• Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, World, Letters

  "On Sir William Temple" by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1838.

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• The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Heart, Light

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• It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Pride, Men, Dust

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