Thomas Babington Macaulay

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    A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favoured and cherished.
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    Death is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright.
    —Alice Thomas Ellis (b. 1932)

    There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)