What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIFear makes us feel our humanity.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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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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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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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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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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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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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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