Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
BENJAMIN DISRAELITaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Travel teaches toleration.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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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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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Justice is truth in action.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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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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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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