Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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About Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay was a British historian, poet and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. He is best known for his The History of England, a seminal example of Whig history which expressed Macaulay's belief in the inevitability of sociopolitical progress and has been widely commended for its prose style. Macaulay also played a substantial role in determining India's education poli…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Thomas B. MacaulayTo 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 fi…
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old st…
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
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 fi…
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
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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 we…
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old st…
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.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
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.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.