The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIEvery production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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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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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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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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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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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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