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.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINext to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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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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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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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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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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