The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIEvery production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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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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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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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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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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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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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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