Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINever apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There is moderation even in excess.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Justice is truth in action.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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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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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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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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