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Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The saviour of mankind himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe! (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
There is no difficulty, says the steward of Moliere's miser, in giving a fine dinner with plenty of money; the really great cook is he who can set out a banquet with no money at all (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
In after life you may have friends fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait waistcoats in a madhouse (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature, endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school - its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one, and that is not only true, but identical, that men always act from self interest (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The perfect disinterestedness and self devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely (Thomas B Macaulay Quotes)