Isaac D'Israeli Quotes

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• It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Lying, Excellence, Mediocrity

  'Curiosities of Literature' (9th ed., 1834) 'On Quotation'

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• One may quote till one compiles.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  May, Quotations

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.

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• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Genius, Fortune, Companion

  "Curiosities of Literature, Poverty of the Learned". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1766 - 1848.

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• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Dunces, Consolation

  "Essay on the Literary Character" by Isaac D'Israeli, Preface p. xxix, and Vol. I, p. 187, 1795.

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• Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Criticism, Merit

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 149-52, Literary Character of Men of Genius, chapter VI, 1922.

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• Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Abuse, Quotations

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• Beware of the man of one book.
  [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Home, Men

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• Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Love Is, Self, Class

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XV, 1795-1822.

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• There is a society in the deepest solitude.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Solitude

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 729-31, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), Chapter X, 1922.

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• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Design, Secret

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

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• The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Greatness, Men, Thinking

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), chapter XV, 1922.

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• All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Eye, Air, Research

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• The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Action, Lovers, Ceremony

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791 - 1834.

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• The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Wise, Art, Eye

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• The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Care, Return, Originals

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt,p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.

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• There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Reading, Writing

  'The Literary Character' (1795) ch. 11

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• Golden volumes! richest treasures,
  Objects of delicious pleasures!
  You my eyes rejoicing please,
  You my hand in rapture seize!
  Brilliant wits and musing sages,
  Lights who beam'd through many ages!
  Left to your conscious leaves their story,
  And dared to trust you with their glory;
  And now their hope of fame achiev'd,
  Dear volumes! you have not deceived!

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Eye, Light

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• A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Beautiful, Circles, Perfect

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 119, 1922.

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• The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Inspiration, Practice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.

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• But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Horse, War, Book

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 461, Curiosities of Literature, Pamphlets, 1922.

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• Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Philosophy, Science, Imagination

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XII, 1795-1822.

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• A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Gratitude, Research, Might

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• The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Reading, Age, Library

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• This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.

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  Wise, Innovation, Age

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• A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Taken, Men, May

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