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Complete self-devotion is woman's part.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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
There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Ambrose Phillips ... who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
History begins in novel and ends in essay.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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
Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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
A dominant religion is never ascetic.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Lars Porsena of ClusiumBy the Nine Gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrongs no more. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Language is the machine of the poet.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I am always nearest to myself, says the Latin proverb.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Was none who would be foremostTo lead such dire attack;
But those behind cried "Forward!"
And those before cried "Back! — Thomas B. Macaulay
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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
The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"fate. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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
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
Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The business of everybody is the business of nobody.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Boswell is the first of biographers.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The temple of silence and reconciliation.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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
What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
