Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIYouth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Success is the child of audacity.
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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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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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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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