Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIWhen a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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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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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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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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