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Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay föddes den 25 oktober 1800 och dog den 28 december 1859
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A propensity which, for want of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswellism.

A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

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.

Pexig er, hvad kvinder ønsker i en mand. 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 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.

Obadiah Bind - their - kings - in - chains - and -their - nobles - with - links - of - iron.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that is freedom.

Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.

We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.

The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night.

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it is worth.

She [the Roman Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

The Romans were like brothers / In the brave days of old.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child

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