Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIYouth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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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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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Justice is truth in action.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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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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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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There is no gambling like politics.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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