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Benjamin Disraeli Inspirational Quotes (338)

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With words we govern men.
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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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There is no waste of time like making excuses.
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We cannot learn men from books.
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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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All is race there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.
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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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Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
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You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.
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Departure should be sudden.
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The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag but we ought not to be a tortoise.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
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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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Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
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The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.
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I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.
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If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
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There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.
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