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From Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
- To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution.…
- Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which…
- Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They…
- 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…
- History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
- Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling…
- People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
- 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…
- What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a…
- That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
- From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were…
- Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
- It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat…
- To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from…
- A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
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