Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

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The mystery of mysteries is to view machines making machines; a spectacle that fills the mind with curious, and even awful, speculation.

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We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

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Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

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Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

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Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

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The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

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The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

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An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

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The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

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Everything in this world is calculation...

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No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.

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Science may prove the insignificance of this globe in the scale of creation... but it cannot prove the insignificance of man.

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Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

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Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

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The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

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Figures are not party men. You may cross the House, yet you cannot convert 15,000 tons into 20,000 tons.

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Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

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Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the
arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

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A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

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I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

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There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

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One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

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Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

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Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

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The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

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There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

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The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

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Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

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