Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELICircumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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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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London is a roost for every bird.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Justice is truth in action.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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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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