Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWe should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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