Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELILife is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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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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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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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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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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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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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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