"It is good to be often reminded of……" — Thomas B. Macaulay
"It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds."
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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 Disgust Quotes
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how…
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
— Walter Benjamin
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
— Thomas Paine
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Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.
— Jim Rohn
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While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the…
— David Mixner
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OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to…
— Sydney Pollack
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There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the…
— Dennis Weaver
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