Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIRead no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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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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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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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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