There is no education like adversity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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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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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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Justice is truth in action.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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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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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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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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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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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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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 first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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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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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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