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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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We moralize among ruins.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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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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Never take anything for granted.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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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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