What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIIt destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There is no education like adversity.
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Never complain and never explain.
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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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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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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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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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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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