A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMan is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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We moralize among ruins.
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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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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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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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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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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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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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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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