Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWhere knowledge ends, religion begins.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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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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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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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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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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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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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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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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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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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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