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305d2d5 Whether the Woman should have been made in the first production of things? Thomas Aquinas
f2a7022 Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him. Thomas Aquinas
463c9f9 Perfect happiness can consist in nothing else than the vision of the Divine Essence. Thomas Aquinas
b163c44 To scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God. Thomas Aquinas
2fc3ce1 To love is to will the good of the other. Thomas Aquinas
53d63f0 Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments. Thomas Aquinas
363456a Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. Thomas Babington Macaulay
17102ed The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. Thomas Babington Macaulay
f25d9f6 Intoxicated with animosity. Thomas Babington Macaulay
4f79e62 The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. Thomas Babington Macaulay
1fde0e2 Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons. Thomas Babington Macaulay
5fae48c Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. Thomas Babington Macaulay
d1dc881 An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. Thomas Babington Macaulay
31df02c Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. Thomas Babington Macaulay
6ce7aac Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa. Thomas Babington Macaulay
9fab8b6 The Chief Justice was rich, quiet, and infamous. Thomas Babington Macaulay
b5a220b I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. Thomas Babington Macaulay
e8577c4 The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. Thomas Babington Macaulay
7aa74e2 He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. Thomas Babington Macaulay
6e6a2a8 There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years. Thomas Babington Macaulay
f6694c9 Forget all feuds, and shed one English tearO'er English dust. A broken heart lies here. Thomas Babington Macaulay
3b79d5d Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. Thomas Babington Macaulay
ef62a11 These be the great Twin BrethrenTo whom the Dorians pray. Thomas Babington Macaulay
cdf9509 Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. Thomas Babington Macaulay
9130416 The dust and silence of the upper shelf. Thomas Babington Macaulay
8d02ead As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Thomas Babington Macaulay
fad169f Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas Babington Macaulay
d032477 His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. Thomas Babington Macaulay
a1e7696 Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. Thomas Babington Macaulay
61a0af0 A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. Thomas Babington Macaulay
a8eb56f We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Thomas Babington Macaulay
44b98c0 In her eyes a thoughtA mystical forewarning! Thomas Bailey Aldrich
333b66b There's a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
77d3223 They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
9ca8785 O harp of life, so speedily unstrung! Thomas Bailey Aldrich
e906693 So precious life is! Even to the old The hours are as a miser's coins! Thomas Bailey Aldrich
0d89d04 Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
e02bd51 The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
7c06f6a After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
8573389 The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
14d1d59 A man is known by the company his mind keeps. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
2c56dd3 True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
18abacf Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
3293ad8 What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. Thomas Bailey Aldrich