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Coningsby (1844)
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We owe the English peerage to three sources: the spoliation of the Church; the open and flagrant sale of honours by the elder Stuarts; and the borough-mongering of our own time.
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A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
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Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
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The mystery of mysteries is to view machines making machines.
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You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the
Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.
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The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.
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What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.
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A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
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What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern...
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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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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
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A government of statesmen or of clerks? Of Humbug or Humdrum?
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The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
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'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'
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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
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He had lived long enough to know that it is unwise to wish everything explained.
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You must possess at the same time the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.
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It seems to me a barren thing this Conservatism—an unhappy cross-breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.
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Born:
December 21, 1804
Died:
April 19, 1881
(aged 76)
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