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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That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.
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There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.
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All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.
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There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
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Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
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An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
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We cannot learn men from books.
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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.
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Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
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In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.
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Man is more powerful than matter.
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Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
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Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
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Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.