Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIAction may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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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 fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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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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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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