"The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains,……" — Thomas B. Macaulay
"The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn."
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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 my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense…
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you…
— Pearl Bailey
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The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
— Harvey Ball
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
— Dave Barry
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it…
— Erma Bombeck
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
— Terry Bradshaw
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