Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThe more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
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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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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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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Little things affect little minds.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
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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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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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