Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINever take anything for granted.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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There is no education like adversity.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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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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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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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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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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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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