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Complete self-devotion is woman's part.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
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[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.
— Florence Nightingale
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
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Reform, that we may preserve.
— Thomas Babington 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
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
— Thomas Babington 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
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
— Thomas Babington 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
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
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tearO'er English dust. A broken heart lies here. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.
— 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
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The business of everybody is the business of nobody.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.
— 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
Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The temple of silence and reconciliation.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Boswell is the first of biographers.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.
— 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
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.
— 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
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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
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
— Thomas Babington 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
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I am always nearest to myself, says the Latin proverb.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
— Thomas Babington 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 Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"fate. — Thomas B. Macaulay
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
— Thomas Babington 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
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.
— 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
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
— 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
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
— 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
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
