Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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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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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Never take anything for granted.
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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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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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