"History begins in novel and ends in essay." — Thomas B. Macaulay

"History begins in novel and ends in essay."

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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125 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

Thomas B. Macaulay has 125 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed…
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which…
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident…
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But…
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is…
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a…
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect…
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and… — Karen Armstrong
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. — Arthur Baer
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story… — Clive Barker
I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with… — Scott Adams
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.… — Samuel Beckett
The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary… — Pope Benedict XVI
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of… — Ruth Benedict
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. — Ambrose Bierce

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