Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
BENJAMIN DISRAELILittle things affect little minds.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Never take anything for granted.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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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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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Never complain and never explain.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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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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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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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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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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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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