We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIBe amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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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 tact you can learn nothing.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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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 choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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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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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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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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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Never take anything for granted.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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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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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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