We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe fool wonders, the wise man asks.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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 man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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Little things affect little minds.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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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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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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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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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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