Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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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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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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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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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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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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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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