A precedent embalms a principle.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThrough perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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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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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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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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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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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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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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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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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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