"He had a head which statuaries loved to……" — Thomas B. Macaulay
"He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked."
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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 Beggar Quotes
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one of 235 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him…
— David Jeremiah
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
— Karl Kraus
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Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have…
— John G. Lake
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And…
— William Shakespeare
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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge,…
— Mason Cooley
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
— Mary McCarthy
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He…
— Thomas Adams
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which…
— Andre Gide
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the…
— Anzia Yezierska
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Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you…
— Swami Vivekananda
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