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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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.Thomas B. Macaulay
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
Thomas B. Macaulay
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Thomas B. Macaulay
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Thomas B. Macaulay
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
Thomas B. Macaulay
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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