“It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.”
“It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters Of Thomas Babington Macaulay“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay“Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay“Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.”
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 object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”
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“The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay“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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