A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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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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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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Without tact you can learn nothing.
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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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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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As for our majority… one is enough.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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