"How well Horatius kept the bridge In the…" — Thomas B. Macaulay

"How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old."

— 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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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate… — Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. — Lucille Ball
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. — Clive Barker
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks… — Julie Burchill
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. — Alan Alda
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Julius Caesar

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