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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINo man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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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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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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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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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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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There is no education like adversity.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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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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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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