Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWhat is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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