A precedent embalms a principle.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITwo nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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We moralize among ruins.
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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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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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