A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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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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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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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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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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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 health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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There is no gambling like politics.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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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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