Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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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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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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There is no education like adversity.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Little things affect little minds.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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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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Travel teaches toleration.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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