Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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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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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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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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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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