Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIAlmost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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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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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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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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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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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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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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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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