What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIAction may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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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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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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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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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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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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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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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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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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