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• We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

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  Errors, Reason, Said

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• Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

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  Men, Confusion, Political

  "Southey's Colloquies on Society" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.

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• A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Tyrants, Constitution, Despots

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• Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

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  Party, Men, Looks

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• The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error.

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  Religious, Errors, Atheism

  "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 60, 1843.

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• And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

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  God, Father, Men

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Horatius”

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• Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

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  Politeness, Benevolence, Wells

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• Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Science, Steps, Leap

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• We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

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  Writing, Should, Conversation

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• Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

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  Men, Belief, Impossible

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• A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.

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  Art, Men, Abuse

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• Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

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  Advertising, Making Money, Mint

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• In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.

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  Passion, Men, Play

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• And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Liberty, Useless

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• No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Past, Men, Views

  "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.

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• A dominant religion is never ascetic.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Dominant

  "Essays, critical and miscellaneous". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay,

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• I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

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  Historical, Bears, Dignity

  "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.

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• It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

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  Greatness, Men, Age

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• A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

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  History, May, Incidents

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• The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.

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  Christ, Mankind, Malice

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• It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

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  Humanity, Mind, Weakness

  "Warren Hastings". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1851.

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• As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

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  Freedom, Government, Order

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• The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

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  Business

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• The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

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  Oratory, Persuasion, Power Of Persuasion

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• The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Historical, Use, Nations

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