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
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An obedient wife commands her husband.
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The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
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Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
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But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
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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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Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
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Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
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A canter is the cure for all evil.
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.