Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre hum...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so va...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till the...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And she (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveller from ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure t...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when i...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that ho...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We mu...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to hav...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it The Territory is worth. Em...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were no...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and h...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adapta...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples o...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagi...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a me...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousn...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tend...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to th...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine mo...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 tha...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, i...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succe...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from Ne...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduc...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dial...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure t...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his h...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a g...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the im...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a litt...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoner.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY She [the Roman Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Romans were like brothers / In the brave days of old.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Obadiah Bind - their - kings - in - chains - and -their - nobles - with - links - of - iron.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, bee...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy libert...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to li...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece t...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so val...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at si...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exagg...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbou...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most dem...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Everybody's business is nobody's business.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And th...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fas...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Boswell is the first of biographers
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And even the ranks of Tuscany / Could scarce forbear to cheer.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people oug...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suff...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then none was for a party;
Then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Pour, varlet, pour the water
The water steaming hot!
A spoonful for each man of us
An...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
A...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuous...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Thank you, madam, the agony is abated.
THOMAS BABINGTON And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods
THOMAS BABINGTON Thank you, madam, the agony is abated.

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THOMAS BABINGTON Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
THOMAS BABINGTON When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a bro...
THOMAS BABINGTON They [the Nabobs] raised the price of everything in their neighbourhood, from fresh eggs to rotten b...
THOMAS BABINGTON There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were no...
THOMAS BABINGTON Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his ...
THOMAS B. MACAULAY This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoun...
THOMAS B. MACAULAY I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be s...
MACAULAY CULKIN People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is,...
MACAULAY CULKIN Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
MACAULAY CULKIN I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'...
MACAULAY CULKIN I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something...
MACAULAY CULKIN I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a re...
MACAULAY CULKIN I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just...
MACAULAY CULKIN He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really trie...
MACAULAY CULKIN It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it...
MACAULAY CULKIN I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind...
MACAULAY CULKIN It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
MACAULAY CULKIN I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for my...
MACAULAY CULKIN Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I c...
MACAULAY CULKIN There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Mac...
MACAULAY CULKIN I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my ag...
MACAULAY CULKIN After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like T...
MACAULAY CULKIN My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He...
MACAULAY CULKIN I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm ...
MACAULAY CULKIN I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn'...
MACAULAY CULKIN I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direct...
MACAULAY CULKIN People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the po...
MACAULAY CULKIN Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important pe...
MACAULAY CULKIN I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting...
MACAULAY CULKIN I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
MACAULAY CULKIN A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, h...
ROSE MACAULAY I don't even get an allowance.
MACAULAY CULKIN As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why i...
ROSE MACAULAY Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms...
ROSE MACAULAY Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice ...
ROSE MACAULAY The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
LORD MACAULAY I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other ...
MACAULAY CULKIN I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happene...
MACAULAY CULKIN Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against fur...
ROSE MACAULAY I'm a big fan of the digestive system.
DAVID MACAULAY At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
ROSE MACAULAY But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not who...
ROSE MACAULAY He wanted to pull himself. I was not going to him let him do that. He is a fiery guy, a passionate g...
TONY MACAULAY Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J.C. MACAULAY He's a friend, but the kind of friend you talk to twice a year.
MACAULAY CULKIN I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a liv...
MACAULAY CULKIN I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.
MACAULAY CULKIN We [Michael Jackson and I] talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most pe...
MACAULAY CULKIN Love's a disease. But curable.
ROSE MACAULAY The great and recurrent question about abroad is, is it worth getting there?
ROSE MACAULAY As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals--or, indeed, why it...
ROSE MACAULAY He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful.
ROSE MACAULAY So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed wi...
ROSE MACAULAY It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, c...
LORD MACAULAY We have to deal with the hand that we?re dealt. We have to look at it as the glass being half-full. ...
TONY MACAULAY You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
ROSE MACAULAY The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and...
ROSE MACAULAY He was pretty good in the stuff we asked him to do.
COLIN MACAULAY Brock just seems very natural doing it.
COLIN MACAULAY He was great. We hope to have him on again.
COLIN MACAULAY Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
DAVID MACAULAY I've never thought about the ages of my readers.
DAVID MACAULAY Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own l...
DAVID MACAULAY I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get...
DAVID MACAULAY I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.
DAVID MACAULAY Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till the...
LORD MACAULAY We'd see people live more simply, and to them it's a way of life.
KATE MACAULAY Whatever form they take, families are our most time-honoured settings for giving and receiving love,...
DR BRIAN BABINGTON Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth re...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many...
J. C. MACAULAY It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
J. C. MACAULAY Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
J. C. MACAULAY Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J. C. MACAULAY Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consol...
J. C. MACAULAY It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth read...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth readin...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN