Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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We moralize among ruins.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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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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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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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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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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