Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
BENJAMIN DISRAELISuccess is the child of audacity.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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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 governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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Man 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.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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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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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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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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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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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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