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Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes


A British poet, historian and Whig politician. 
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. He also held political office as Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841 and Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848.

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The temple of silence and reconciliation.
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Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
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The art of making much show with little substance.
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The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.
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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
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In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
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His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.
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The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2015, 12:59:57 PM »
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2015, 01:00:25 PM »
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
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« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2015, 01:01:46 PM »
Then out spake brave Horatius The captain of the gate: 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. 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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« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2015, 01:02:20 PM »
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
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