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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWe moralize among ruins.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Justice is truth in action.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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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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There is no gambling like politics.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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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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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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