"A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the……" — Thomas B. Macaulay
"A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop."
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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 Cedar Quotes
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...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year…
— Al Gore
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Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no…
— Edwin Markham
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees.…
— Hamlin Garland
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The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it…
— Khalil Gibran
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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
— Therese of Lisieux
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm,…
— Edmund Spenser
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The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or…
— Robert Fortune
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We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split…
— May Sarton
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Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted,…
— Rajneesh
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I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It…
— Jeffrey Donovan
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To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break…
— John Muir
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