Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes - Page 6

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• If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

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  Imagination, Rant, Ifs

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• If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

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  Dream, Men, Progress

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• He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

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  Rakes, Scholar

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• We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

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  Ridiculous, Morality, Fit

  "On Moore's Life of Lord Byron" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.

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• A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

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  Knowledge, Knowing Everything, Cedars

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.

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  Liberty, Together, Civil Rights

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• The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

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  History, Eulogy, Lasts

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• Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

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  Poetry, Mind, Certain

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• Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

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  Strong, Men, Atheism

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• That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

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  Government, People, Desire

  "Essay on Mitford's History of Greece". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1824.

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• He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

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  Love, Feet, Deformity

  "The Life of Lord Byron". Book by Thomas Moore, 1831.

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• The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

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  Justice, Quiet, Rich

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

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• Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.

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  Writing, Order, Turkeys

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• Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.

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  Latin, Poet, Satire

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• Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

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  Parent, Forever, Sound

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• Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

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  Cutting, Lakes, Sea

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• With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

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  Atheism, Doctrine, Philosopher

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• This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

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  Imagination, Miracle, Mind

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• Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

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  Beard, Emblems, Piety

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• The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.

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  Drama, Character, Sight

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• In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

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  Christian, Fiction, Example

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• Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

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  Law, Genius, Cotton

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• Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

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  Retirement, Grief, Meditation

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• A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.

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  Powerful, Self, Profound

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• To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

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  Intellectual, Distinction, Historian

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