Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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He is a self - Made man, very much in love with his creator.
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I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
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There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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We make our fortunes and call them fate.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
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When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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I feel a very unusual sensation - If it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
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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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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
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Ignorance never settles a question.
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
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It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Little things affect little minds.
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli