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His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
To every man upon this Earth death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods? (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Was none who would be foremost to lead such dire attack; but those behind cried, forward! And those before cried, back! (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it the territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The English Bible - a book which, if every thing else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
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 (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Alas, for human nature that the wounds of vanity should smart and bleed so much longer than the wounds of affection! (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of her sex surpasses the tact of ours (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)