Never take anything for granted.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe 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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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Little things affect little minds.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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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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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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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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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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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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