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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELICircumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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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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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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