A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIUpon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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Little things affect little minds.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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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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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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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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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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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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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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