"Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever." — Thomas B. Macaulay
"Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever."
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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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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it…
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're…
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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not…
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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
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Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power…
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The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
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People are forever finding something wrong with you.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words…
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