Events Quote by Isaac D'Israeli

“Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.”

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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

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Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers,…

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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

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It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their…

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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

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The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments…

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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…

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There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

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The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of…

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One may quote till one compiles.

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Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record…

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History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…

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My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington…

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Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

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In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make…

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I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his…

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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

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Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his…

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Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes…

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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible…

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The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo…

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History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

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Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of…

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