Quote #46
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.
More from Thomas Babington Macaulay
- There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
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- As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
- It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
- The dust and silence of the upper shelf.
- Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.