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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

[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 tear
O'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

[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 Clusium
By 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

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