Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PCwas a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces. He was a member of the Babington family by virtue of his aunt's marriage to Thomas Babington...
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Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
imagination miracle mind
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.
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Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
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Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.
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Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.
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I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
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In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.
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A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.
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Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrongs no more.
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Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack; But those behind cried "Forward!" And those before cried "Back!
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Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.
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There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.
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A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
dominant
A dominant religion is never ascetic.