Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PCwas a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces. He was a member of the Babington family by virtue of his aunt's marriage to Thomas Babington...
art philosophy history
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
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We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.
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The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.
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To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
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A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.
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Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
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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.
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Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
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Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
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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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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.