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...
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Date of Birth21 December 1804
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Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
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Adventures are to the adventurous.
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Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
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All my successes have been built on my failures.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.