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Thomas B. Macaulay

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Thomas B. Macaulay is an author, best known for The Denham story.

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Profession: Author
Notable works: The Denham story

About Thomas B. Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay was a British historian, poet and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. He is best known for his The History of England, a seminal example of Whig history which expressed Macaulay's belief in the inevitability of sociopolitical progress and has been widely commended for its prose style. Macaulay also played a substantial role in determining India's education policy.

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Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity…

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Confusion

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The end of government is the happiness of the people.

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Ends

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There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a…

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Abolish

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It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present…

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Body

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In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

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Age

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We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be…

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Be a man

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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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Inspirational

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History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

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Essentials

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In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery…

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Crowds

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As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

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Freedom

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The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon…

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Broken

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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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Allies

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A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:…

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Ability

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A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

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Commandments

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So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

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Art

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It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have…

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Able

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The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

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Historical

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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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Beautiful

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If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

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Hurrying

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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who…

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Counterfeit

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At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No…

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Books

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Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all…

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Abstraction

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Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

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Equal

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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…

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Habit

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In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you…

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Dear

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Thomas B. Macaulay by topic

Men (34) History (18) Poetry (17) May (16) Love (15) Inspirational (15) Politics (14) Humans (13) People (12) Books (12) Has beens (11) Mind (10) Ifs (10) Government (10) Should (9)