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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWilliam Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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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 secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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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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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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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 choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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