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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELII 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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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The 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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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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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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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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