Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIHe has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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As for our majority… one is enough.
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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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Travel teaches toleration.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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We moralize among ruins.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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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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