Zitate von Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Wir könnten uns damit abfinden, unter einem Lüstling oder einem Tyrannen zu leben; aber von einem Vielgeschäftigen regiert zu werden ist mehr, als die menschliche Natur ertragen kann.
Informationen über Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
Politiker, Historiker (Schottland, 1800 - 1859).
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay wäre heute 223 Jahre, 6 Monate, 3 Tage oder 81.635 Tage alt.
Geboren am 25.10.1800 in Rothley Temple (Leicestershire)
Gestorben am 28.12.1859 in Kensington (London)
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion
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Weitere 78 Zitate von Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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It was a crime in a child to read by the bedside of a sick parent one of those beautiful collects which had soothed the griefs of forty generations of Christians.
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Lars Porsena of Clusium / By the nine gods he swore / That the great house of Tarquin / Should suffer wrong no more.
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Many politicians lay 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.
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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No man correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
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Now we will stand on either hand, / And keep the bridge with me?
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Oh, Tiber! father Tiber / To whom the Romans pray, / A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, / Take thou in charge this day!
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Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, / With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red?
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of the mind.
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Persecution produced its natural effect on them [Puritans and Calvinists]. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
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Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
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She [the Church of Rome] thoroughly understands what no other church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
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She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.
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Thank you, madam, the agony is abated.
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That temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried.
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The business of everybody is the business of nobody.
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The business of everybody is the business of nobody.
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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.
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The essence of war is violence.
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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
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