Life 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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIEvery production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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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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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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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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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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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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