And how can man die better than facing fearful odd... -Thomas Babington Macaulay

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Thomas Babington Macaulay , Poet
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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines....
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind....
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freed...
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom....
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 pow...
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it....
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion....
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?...
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action....
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners....

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As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a ...
Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I ...
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death....
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God....
Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the de...
If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy fr...
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, '...
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a...
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry....
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount....