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Men Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli
- The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and…
- To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
- If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most…
- The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
- A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be…
- Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
- Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
- Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
- A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal…
- The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
- Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is…
- The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst…
- Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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