Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leade.
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Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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He is a self - Made man, very much in love with his creator.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
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Every great decision creates ripples - - Like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.
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Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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The hare - Brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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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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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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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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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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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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No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
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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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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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It is easier to be critical than correct.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
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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.
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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
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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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As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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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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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few.
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