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Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes
British - Poet August 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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 story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Reform, that we may preserve.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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 fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Bret Harte Quotes
American - Author August 25, 1836 - May 6, 1902
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Bret Harte
Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
Bret Harte
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
Bret Harte
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
Bret Harte
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
Bret Harte
Virchand Gandhi Quotes
Indian - Educator Born: August 25, 1864
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.
Virchand Gandhi
May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.
Virchand Gandhi
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.
Virchand Gandhi
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.
Virchand Gandhi
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'
Virchand Gandhi
According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.
Virchand Gandhi
The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.
Virchand Gandhi
We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!
Virchand Gandhi
Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.
Virchand Gandhi
Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.
Virchand Gandhi
William Feather Quotes
American - Author August 25, 1889 - January 7, 1981
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
William Feather
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
William Feather
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
William Feather
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
William Feather
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
William Feather
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
William Feather
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
William Feather
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
William Feather
Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
William Feather
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather
Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
William Feather
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feather
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
William Feather
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
William Feather
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feather
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
William Feather
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
William Feather
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
William Feather
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
William Feather
When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
William Feather
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
William Feather
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
William Feather
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
William Feather
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
William Feather
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
William Feather
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
William Feather
He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
William Feather
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
William Feather
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
William Feather
Few of us get anything without working for it.
William Feather
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
William Feather
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
William Feather
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
William Feather
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
William Feather
Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
William Feather
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
William Feather
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Feather
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
William Feather
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
William Feather
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
William Feather
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
William Feather
An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
William Feather
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