Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

Thomas B. Macaulay

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

Byron

Names

Years

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

Art

History

Philosophy

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

History

Incidents

May

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

Cedars

Knowing Everything

Knowledge

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

Hypocrisy

Men

Night

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.

Powerful

Profound

Self

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.

May

Men

Politics

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

May

Tides

Tidy

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor’s wife.

Hate

Love

Two

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

Character

Despair

Evil

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Auditors

Awake

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Believe

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Biographers

Blessing

Body

Book

British History

Brother

Business

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Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

Thomas B. Macaulay

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor’s wife.

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