"Every generation enjoys the use of a vast……" — Thomas B. Macaulay
"Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages."
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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 Acquisition Quotes
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one of 229 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the…
— Jane Austen
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen…
— John Cage
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive…
— J. G. Holland
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.
— Robert Bunsen
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances -…
— Peter Drucker
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The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and…
— J. William Fulbright
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
— William James
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If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as…
— William James
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Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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