"A beggarly people, A church and no steeple." — Thomas B. Macaulay
"A beggarly people, A church and no steeple."
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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125 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas B. Macaulay has 125 quotes on this site.
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed…
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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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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which…
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident…
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But…
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is…
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a…
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect…
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
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More Beggarly Quotes
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one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The beggarly last doit.
— William Cowper
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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
— Walt Whitman
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy,…
— James Russell Lowell
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a…
— Samuel Johnson
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When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it,…
— Thomas Hardy
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
— Arthur Murphy
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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires…
— Jeremy Taylor
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In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave…
— Mark Twain
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He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and…
— James Allen
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Today festival is a big burden for beggarly humans.Mak_786
— Mak_786
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