What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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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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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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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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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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