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Thomas B. Macaulay’s short observations on the little things are marked by clear, thoughtful prose. They provide a succinct lens on everyday nuances.

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We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure…

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He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

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He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must…

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The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him…

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The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear…

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The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the…

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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are…

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It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance…

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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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