Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. Thomas B. Macaulay More Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay More Quotes From Thomas B. Macaulay More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning. Thomas B. Macaulay envy despise sin Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby. Thomas B. Macaulay fashion honor names If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. Thomas B. Macaulay kings beautiful book Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity. Thomas B. Macaulay diversity human-nature mean I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb. Thomas B. Macaulay latin-proverb selfishness latin The end of government is the happiness of the people. Thomas B. Macaulay government ends people Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing. Thomas B. Macaulay fashion taste seems The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action. Thomas B. Macaulay powerful feelings men Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice. Thomas B. Macaulay fantasy support country The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize. Thomas B. Macaulay body criticism reading In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. Thomas B. Macaulay poet criticism may The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken. Thomas B. Macaulay malice mankind christ It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust. Thomas B. Macaulay dust pride men There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars. Thomas B. Macaulay choices reading war We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative. Thomas B. Macaulay medicine poison thinking Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing. Thomas B. Macaulay holland spain progress Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received. Thomas B. Macaulay greatness mind pay It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age. Thomas B. Macaulay greatness age men Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose. Thomas B. Macaulay greatness character mean The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads. Thomas B. Macaulay sects counting
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