"The temple of silence and reconciliation." — Thomas B. Macaulay

"The temple of silence and reconciliation."

— 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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More Graves Quotes

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the… — Francis Bacon
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or… — Abigail Adams
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. — Henry Adams
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the… — Henry Ward Beecher
The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where… — Marek Belka
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as… — Pope Benedict XVI
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to… — Berkeley Breathed
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. — Georg Buchner

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