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Thomas B. Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was 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.

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How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

Ably, Assume, Assuming, Human, Men, Mystery

The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

Business, Everybody, Nobody

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

Affects, Character, Interests, Passion, Prejudice

Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

Brother, Like, Men, Party, Romans, Sold

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

Necessary, Outrage, Outrages, Revolution, Violent

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Coming, Evidently, May, Recede, Tides, Tidy

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

4Th Of July, Free, Freedom, Learning, Story

A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

Beggarly, Church, People, Steeple, Steeples

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

Commandments, Ethics, Hate, Love, Two

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

Atheism, Church, Deals, Enthusiasts, Understands

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

Letters, Man, Men, World

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

British, Fit, Morality, Periodical, Public, Ridiculous

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.

Excelled, Foreign, Latin, Poet, Satire, Works

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Dawn, Firsts, Like, Mountain, Reflect

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.

Among, Dust, Manger, Men, Partaking, Pride

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

Art, Color, Illusion, Manner, Mean

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Cotton, Genius, Law, Production, Subject

It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.

Distance, Factions, Gave, Government, Rome

To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in its own nature most violent, and which, in such cases, is a remedy only because it is violent, it is idle to think of mitigating and diluting. Languid war can do nothing which negotiation or submission will do better: and to act on any other principle is, not to save blood and money, but to squander them.

Idle, Nothing, Peace, Submission, Thinking, War

If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.

Beautiful, Book, Condition, King, Kings, Wine

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