Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe 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.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Never take anything for granted.
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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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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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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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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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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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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 world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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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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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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We moralize among ruins.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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