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• Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

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  Animal, Law, Camels

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3319, Delphi Classics

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• How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

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  Book, Men, Ideas

  "Coningsby". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book VII, Ch. 2, 1844.

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• Amusement to an observing mind is study.

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  Mind, Amusement, Study

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.967, Delphi Classics

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• The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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  Reading, Age, Novelty

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• Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

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  Music, Beautiful, Piano

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4879, Delphi Classics

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• Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

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  Silent, Questioning, Teach

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches”

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• There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

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  Moving, Thinking, Feelings

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• In politics experiments means revolutions.

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  Mean, Government, Revolution

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.505, Delphi Classics

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• I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

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  Conservative, Constitution, Radical

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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• It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

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  Passion, Men, Conquer The World

  Benjamin Disraeli (1869). “The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.”, p.176

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• Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

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  Spiritual, Truth, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.17

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• There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

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  Dull, Life Is

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil: Or, The Two Nations”, p.201

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• Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

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  Friendship, Country, Men

  Speech at Guildhall, 9 November 1877, in 'The Times' 10 November 1877.

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• Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

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  Responsibility, Power, Next

  "Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches".

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• Religion is civilization, the highest.

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  Civilization, Religion, Highest

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• The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

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  Suffering, World, England

  'Hansard' 15 March 1838

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• A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

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  Law, Moral, Individual

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”, p.214

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• There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

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  Power, Gambling, Politics

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• Every moment is travel - if understood.

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  Travel, Moments, Understood

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.86

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• The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

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  Feelings, Desire, Causes

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”, p.135

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• You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

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  Political, Politics, Valuable

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

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  Fear, Giving, Spurs

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• The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

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  Eye, Society, Littles

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4092, Delphi Classics

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• Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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  Inspirational, Children, Positive Thinking

  Vivian Grey bk. 5, ch. 1 (1826)

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• I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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  Revolution, Opinion, Rebellious

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2490, Delphi Classics

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