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Famous Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”
“Ignorance never settles a question.”
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
“As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”
“Life is too short to be little.”
“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”
“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”
“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”
“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.”
“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
“Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.”
“Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.”
“The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.”
“Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.”
“I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.”
“Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.”
“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”
“Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.”
“Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.”
“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.”
“Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.”
“I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.”
“Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.”
“The essence of education is the education of the body.”
“A precedent embalms a principle.”
“Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.”