30 ordspråk av Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia
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And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods
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Boswell is the first of biographers
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Boswell is the first of biographers
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By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors
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Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
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Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action
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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife
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He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child
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I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both
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I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read
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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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More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning
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