The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINever apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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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.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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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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There is no education like adversity.
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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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