Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no education like adversity.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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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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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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