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Sunday, 6 July 2008
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"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." (Congreve, William - Joy)

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Browse Quotations by Macaulay, Thomas B.

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
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.
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
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 wear.
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.
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.


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