As for our majority… one is enough.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIBeware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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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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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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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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