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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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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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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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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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As for our majority… one is enough.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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