The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINext to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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London is a roost for every bird.
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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 world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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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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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
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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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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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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
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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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Silence is the mother of truth.
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