Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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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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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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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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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Justice is truth in action.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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I 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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