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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Poet
Born: Oct 25, 1800
Died: Dec 28, 1859
Best He Man Nothing People Power
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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? Thomas Babington Macaulay
Death Man Better Odds Fathers Temples Fearful Facing How His Than Gods Die Ashes
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
Character Man Out Would Never He Knew Real Real Character Measure Found
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. Thomas Babington Macaulay
King Books Would Rather Cottage Read Without Than Poor Full Desire
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Money Nothing Mint Except Advertising Make Without
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Power Virtue Possess Proof Highest Abuse Boundless Without
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Welfare Honor State Indifference Between Always Effect Dislike Created Groups Violent
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Good Knowledge Men Whatever Logic Tendency Make Theory
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Men Settle Rightly Never Freely Likely Question Discuss
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Morality Know Fits Public Ridiculous Spectacle British
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Government Best Happy People Make Knows How Which Them Desires
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nothing General Maxim Useless
Reform, that we may preserve. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Reform May Preserve
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Truth Alone Object Oratory Persuasion
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Man World Men Temple Letters Amongst
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Saying Property Rest Community Our Section Direct Habits Protect Surely Opinions Private Contradiction Quite May Unfit Persons Certain Competent
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Government Broken People Words Nothing Meddling Other Birth Say Tells Wear Eat Drink Read Paternal In Other Words Which Them
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Wonderful Thought Had He Talent Rendering Close Packing Portable
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Civilization Poetry Advances Almost Necessarily
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Alone Bible Book Language Power Beauty Else Our Everything Everything Else Would Perish Which Should Show English Whole Suffice Extent
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Election Accident Birth Neighbours Security Perceive Magistrate Wiser None His Lot Than Affords Any Being As Far As Which Modes Far Much Popular Appointed
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nature Man Crime Will Wicked Every Other Punish Some Case Foolish He Doctrine Doctrines Him Because Persecution Conduct Infer Same Commit Hold Holds Which Persons Who
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. Thomas Babington Macaulay
God Man Aim Sum Philosophy Say Exalt Up Should Whole Platonic
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Freedom Evils Only Cure Which Newly Acquired Produces
Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Shall Had Been Nor Again England Night
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Better Than Acre Utopia

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