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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The gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scares of disease.
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The highest proof of virtue is to prossess boundless power without abusing it.
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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.
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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it is worth.
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The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves.
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The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promise of impossibilities.
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Then none was for a party; / Then all were for the state.
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This province of literature [history] is a debatable line. It lies on the confines of two distinct territories . . . It is sometimes fiction. It is sometimes theory.
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Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination may talk of degeneracy and decay, but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
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To every man upon this earth / Death cometh soon or late. / And how can man die better / Than facing fearful odds, / For the ashes of his fathers, / And the temples of his Gods?
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Was none who would be foremost / To lead such dire attack; / But those behind cried "Forward!" / And those before cried "Back!"
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We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.
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We have heard it said that five percents is the natural interest of money.
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality.
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Le puritain haïssait les combats d'ours, non parce que ces jeux causaient à l'ours des souffrances mais parce qu'ils causaient du plaisir aux spectateurs.
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