“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.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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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
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“That fatal drollery called a representative government.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“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.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“We moralise among ruins.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“Never complain and never explain.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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