Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe fool wonders, the wise man asks.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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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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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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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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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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The 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 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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Travel teaches toleration.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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