Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELICircumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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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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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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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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Success is the child of audacity.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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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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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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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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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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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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