What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWe should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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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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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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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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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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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 Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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