Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Age, Human Nature, Found

• In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Lying, Silence, Mind

  "On Warren Hastings" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1841.

• We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Poetry, Age, Genius

  "On Milton" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1825.

• What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Destiny, Men, Age

  "On Boswell's Life of Johnson" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1831.

• Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Fashion, Age, Generations

• It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Greatness, Men, Age

• Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Character, Mean, Greatness

• 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.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Past, Views

  "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.

• Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Strong, Men, Atheism

• Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Future, Age, Acquisition

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