Book Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

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Thomas B. Macaulay provides eight scholarly reflections on books, each hinting at his analytical approach to literature. This concise collection serves as a quick entry point into his intellectual engagement with the written word.

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It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is…

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This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly…

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The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

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Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

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If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches,…

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Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one…

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That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire…

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In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our…

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A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as…

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Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

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Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in…

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Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely…

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The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

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The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines…

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Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth…

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It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable…

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Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

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In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when…

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In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

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He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

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The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests,…

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