Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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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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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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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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