We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELILife is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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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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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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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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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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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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