Without tact you can learn nothing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMy objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Justice is truth in action.
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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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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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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 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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As for our majority… one is enough.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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