"He had done that which could never be……" — Thomas B. Macaulay
"He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave."
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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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"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ…
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You hate it before you played it. I already forgave ya.
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you…
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She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
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They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest…
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My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.
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And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot…
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It's time to sort of get back to a basic message, the message that was given. At this time, the…
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When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.
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You know that girl that always forgave you? That always loved you? That always took you back? Pretty soon, she’ll…
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I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,'…
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What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?…
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