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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Dust, Two, Drawing

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Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Self, Devotion

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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

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He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Business, Ambition, Crowns

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To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Philosophy, Men, Should

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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Religion, Society, Church

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The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Sound, Praise

Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Lines Written In August”

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There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.

Thomas B. Macaulay

War, Reading, Choices

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Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Real, Influence, Byron

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In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Latin, Book, Years

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All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

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Feelings, Literature, Covering

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There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Country, School, Government

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Boswell is the first of biographers.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Firsts, Biographers

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A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Men, May, Politics

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The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Order, Long, Intellectual

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That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Love, Book, Simple

"On Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1831.

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The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Allies, Littles, Christianity

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The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Counting, Sects

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Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

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Spoons, Diners, Eating

"Political Georgics" by Thomas B. Macaulay, June 29, 1831.

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Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Night, England

"The Armada". Poem by Thomas B. Macaulay, l. 34, 1833.

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In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Men, Lakes, Order

"On Fredrick the Great" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1842.

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It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Believe, Book, School

"Writing to the moment" by Tom Paulin, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2004.

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Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north,
With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red?
And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?
And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?

Thomas B. Macaulay

Wine, Hands, Feet

Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “The Battle Of Naseby”

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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Poetry, Age, Genius

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

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But thou, through good and evil, praise and blame,
Wilt not thou love me for myself alone?
Yes, thou wilt love me with exceeding love,
And I will tenfold all that love repay;
Still smiling, though the tender may reprove,
Still faithful, though the trusted may betray.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Life, Evil, Faithful

Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Lines Written In August”

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Born: October 25, 1800
Died: December 28, 1859
Occupation: Former Secretary at War
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