Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Little things affect little minds.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Next 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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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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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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There is no education like adversity.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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London is a roost for every bird.
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