We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIYou can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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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Success is the child of audacity.
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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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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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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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London is a roost for every bird.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Justice is truth in action.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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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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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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