There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMan 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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIColonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIModeration is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIPlagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIDiligence is the mother of good fortune.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITravel teaches toleration.
BENJAMIN DISRAELICircumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIJustice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELISuccess is the child of audacity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMan is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIHe has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIRead no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe secret of success is constancy to purpose.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no education like adversity.
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