Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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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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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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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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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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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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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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The 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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There is no education like adversity.
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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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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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