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From Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
- Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.
- News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it…
- Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
- Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
- It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of…
- If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of…
- We cannot learn men from books.
- Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
- I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed…
- How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and…
- It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired…
- Man is only great when he acts from passion.
- The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
- 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…
- 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,…
- When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
- Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and…
- If it is true that the basic quest of man is freedom, the question we must ask is: Is it freedom from or freedom for?…
- Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.
- Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions
- Man is truly great when he can act from his passions
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