| 26 Famous Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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“Everybody's business is nobody's business.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Essay on Hallam's Constit. History
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“Thus our democracy was from an early period the most
aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.”
Democracy Quotes Source: History (vol. I, p. 20)
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“In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities
of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which has
during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose
minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the
Great Hall.”
Churches Quotes Source: Warren Hastings
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“A beggarly people,
A church and no steeple.”
Churches Quotes Source: Warren Hastings
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“Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.”
Sound Quotes Source: Enigma (last line), "Cut off my head, etc."
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“And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods?”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Horatius keeps the Bridge
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“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.”
Navy Quotes Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. III, pt. XXXII)
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“The sweeter sound of woman's praise.”
Praise Quotes Source: Lines Written on the Night of 30th of July, 1847
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“How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.”
Bravery Quotes Source: Lays of Ancient Rome--Horatius (70)
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“A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your
neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.”
Society Quotes Source: Essays--Moore's Life of Lord Byron
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“Then none was for a party;
Than all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor,
And the poor man loved the great:
Then lands were fairly portioned;
Then spoils were fairly sold:
The Romans were like brothers
In the brave days of old.”
Unity Quotes Source: Lays of Ancient Rome--Horatius (st. 32)
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“"Sidney Godophin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and
never out of the way."”
Service Quotes Source: History of England (vol. I, p. 265, Cabinet Ed.)
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“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.”
Morality Quotes Source: On Moore's Life of Lord Byron
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“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”
Oratory Quotes Source: Essay on Athenian Orators
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“The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public
good.”
Public trust Quotes Source: Essay on Horace Walpole
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“Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a
sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the
moment both themselves and their auditors.”
Conversation Quotes Source: Essay--On the Athenian Orators
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“The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the
bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”
Cruelty Quotes Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. II)
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“The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James
II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told
him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"--"Is it possible?"”
Stupidity Quotes Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. IX)
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“I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster
than you think.”
Stupidity Quotes Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. IX)
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“He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested
business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have
undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.”
Ambition Quotes Source: History of England (Character of Charles II) (vol. I, ch. II)
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“. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters
amongst men of the world.”
Literature Quotes Source: On Sir William Temple
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“Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.”
Eating Quotes Source: Political Georgics
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“His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled
him to run, though not to soar.”
Imagination Quotes Source: On John Dryden
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“The human race is governed by its imagination.
[Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]”
Imagination Quotes Source: On John Dryden
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“It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human
nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the
weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.”
Humanity Quotes Source: Warren Hastings
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