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• A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Night, Men, Hypocrisy

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• Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Hands, Creation, Priests

  "On Milton" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1825.

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• There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Evil, Cures, Produce

  "Critical and Historical Essays: Volume II" by Thomas B. Macaulay, London: J. M. Dent and Sons, (p. 180), 1907.

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• The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Portraits, Mixtures, Painting

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• Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Spring, Expression, Ideas

  John Morley, Thomas B. Macaulay (2016). “Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political”, p.89, Editions Le Mono

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• The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Moving, Hair, History

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• No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

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  Country, Men, May

  "The Complete Writings of Lord Macaulay, vol. 17". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 14, speech on parliamentary reform (March 2, 1831), 1900.

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• From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Hate, Two

  "Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, 1843.

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• A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Language is the machine of the poet.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Machines, Language, Poet

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• I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Religion, Awake, Hippopotamus

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• Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Fashion, Age, Generations

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• Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but 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

  Men, Past, Views

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

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• The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Trust, Doctrine, Public Trust

  "Essay on Horace Walpole" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1833.

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• History begins in novel and ends in essay.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  History, Ends, Novel

  "Miscellaneous Writings". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. 1, 1823.

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• When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Discovery, Years, Law

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• This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Book, Men, Ignorant

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• He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Children, Poetry, Littles

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• As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

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  Civilization, Poetry, Decline

  "On Milton" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1825.

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• Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

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  Imagination, Advancement, Creation

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• In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

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  Plato, Philosophy, Science

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• How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Bridges, Bravery, Brave

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Horatius”

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• Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Equal

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• At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Grace

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• The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Pain, History, Religion

  "History of England". Volume I, Chapter II, 1849-1861.

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