Thomas Babington Macaulay
Poet
1800-10-25
Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans were like brothersIn the brave days of old.
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What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
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What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
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Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans were like brothersIn the brave days of old.
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
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The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
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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.
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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.
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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
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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.
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The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.
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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
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