It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Justice is truth in action.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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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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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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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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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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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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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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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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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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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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