Thomas Babington Macaulay

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    I never heard a single expression of fondness for him fall from the lips of any of those who knew him well.
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    Tangled was I in Love’s snare.
    Oppressed with pain, torment with care;
    Of grief right sure, of joy quite bare,
    Clean in despair by cruelty.
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)