Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Never complain and never explain.
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.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
London is a roost for every bird.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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