Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRSwas a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 December 1804
exuberance gifted imagination
Inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination
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He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective
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For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret
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Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
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Every product of genius must be the product of enthusiasm.
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If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.
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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it's not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end
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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.