Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes - Page 8

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• Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspirational, Funny, Anchors

  Letter to H.S. Randall, May 23, 1857.

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• The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Life, Work, Firsts

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• The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Honor, Groups, Conflict

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• Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Voice, Events, Reform

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• A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  People, Church, Steeples

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• Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
  O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lying, Heart, Dust

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Epitaph On A Jacobite”

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• Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Mean, Diversity, Human Nature

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• Lars Porsena of Clusium
  By the Nine Gods he swore
  That the great house of Tarquin
  Should suffer wrongs no more.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  House, Suffering, Nine

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• Was none who would be foremost
  To lead such dire attack;
  But those behind cried "Forward!"
  And those before cried "Back!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Confusion, Would Be, Behinds

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Horatius”

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• Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Useless, Maxims

  "On Machiavelli" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1827.

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• In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Art, Imagination, Grace

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• He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  History, Done, British History

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• The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Fate, Kismet, Accidents

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• Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Queens, Play, Evil

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• It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Distance, Government, Rome

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• Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Mean, Fate

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• The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Mind, Littles, Little Minds

  "On Horace Walpole" by Thomas B. Macaulay, October, 1833.

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• The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Gallery, Estates, Realms

  "On Hallam's Constitutional History" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1828.

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• We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Thinking, Medicine, Poison

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• I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Tables, Lasts, Produce

  Letter to Macvey Napier, November 5, 1841.

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• I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Succeed, Bears, Dignity

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

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• The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"-"Is it possible?"

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Stupid, Son, Law

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 758, History of England, Volume I, Chapter IX, 1922.

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• We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Judging, Judgement

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• Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspire, Infidelity, World

  "Ranke's History of the Popes" by Thomas B. Macaulay, "Edinburgh Review", October, 1840.

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• The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Beauty, Book, Language

  "On John Dryden" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1828.

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