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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELICourage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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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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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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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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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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