Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 7

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• We are taught words, not ideas.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Ideas, Taught

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• Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Political, Feelings

  Sybil bk. 2, ch. 5 (1845) See Kerner 1

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• Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Rothschild, World, Lord

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• A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mistake, Men, Grandfather

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• Small things affects small minds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mind, Small Minds, Small Things

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• No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Numbers, Government, Long

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.65

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• Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Criticism, Sincerity, Candor

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• Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  World, Quitting, Forget You

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.405

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• Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Age, Aftermath

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4992, Delphi Classics

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• The world is governed by personalities very different to what people
  that cannot see further than their eyes, believe

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Eye, People

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• What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Public Opinion, Opinion, Sentiments

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

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• Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

  Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion”

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• A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Horse, Dark, Past

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.45, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

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  Inspirational, Men, Odds

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Knowledge, Men

  "The Value of Literature to Men of Business". Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Manchester Athenaeum, October 23, 1844.

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• Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Country, School

  'Hansard' 15 June 1874, col. 1618

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• Life is too short to be little.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Life, Littles

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.255

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• If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Learning, People, Leader

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.389, London : D. Bryce

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• Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Two Nations, Welfare Programs

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.315

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• "Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sorry

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• A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Great Things

  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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• Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.377, Delphi Classics

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• The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiring, Sports, Memorial Day

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• A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Battle, May

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4906, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Preparation, Progress

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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