"From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew……" — Thomas B. Macaulay
"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 to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife."
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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125 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
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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 Byron Quotes
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Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town -…
— Dan Jenkins
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Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money…
— Jimmy Demaret
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To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action…
— Harvey Fierstein
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Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then…
— D. J. Enright
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I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and…
— Leigh Steinberg
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The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.
— John Constable
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If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do…
— Bernard Lown
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I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
— John Clare
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Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to…
— Chad Pennington
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Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.
— Freeman Dyson
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