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• In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

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  Jesus, Law, Church

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.130

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• I believe absence is a great element of charm.

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  Believe, Elements, Absence

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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.

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  Art, Memories, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

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• Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

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  Health, Men, Fruition

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.96, London : H. Colburn

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• Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

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  Inspirational, Intelligent, Enthusiasm For Life

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.213

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• It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

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  Men, Light, Darkness

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

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  Care, Firsts, Duty

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• It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

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  Business, Party, Men

  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: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

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  Powerful, Men, People

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Printing Trade Festival, 1845.

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• News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

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  Class, Gossip, East

  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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• All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

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  Sound, Paradise, Eating

  'The Young Duke' (1831) bk. 1, ch. 10

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• Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

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  Country, Independent, Colony

  'Hansard' 5 February 1863

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• To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

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  Youth, Fortune, Young

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.4

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• I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

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  Gentleman, Printing, Presses

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• To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

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  Mother, Children, Childhood

  Benjamin Disraeli (1864). “Venetia”, p.210

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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.

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  Time, Suffering, Age

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

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• He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

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  Horse, Thinking, Packs

  'Hansard' 3 June 1862

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• A person's fate is their own temper.

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  Fate, Temper, Temperament

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• Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

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  Intelligent, Political, Mediocrity

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.104

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• Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

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  Observation, Acquire

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.78

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• The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

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  Powerful, Pride, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Printing Trade Festival, 1845.

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• As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

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  Money, Passion, Ambition

  Benjamin Disraeli (1859). “Henrietta Temple a Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli”, p.340

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• No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

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  Writing, Discovery, Language

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

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• Departure should be sudden.

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  Departure, Should, Parting

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• Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

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  Men, Modern, Natural

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5033, Delphi Classics

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