Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 8

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• The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Israel, Views, Heaven

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5014, Delphi Classics

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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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• Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Determination, Business

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• To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Knowledge, Intelligent

  "Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 5, 1845.

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• Man is more powerful than matter.

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  Powerful, Men, Matter

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

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• Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Potters, Human Nature

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.338

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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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• Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

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  Inspirational, Years, Events

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1976, Delphi Classics

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• Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Remember, Sometimes

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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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• Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

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  Wise, Law, May

  Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

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• I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Ethos, Forget

  Said to Lord Esher of his relations with Queen Victoria, in Elizabeth Longford 'Victoria R. I' (1964) ch. 27

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• I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wine, Bored, So Bored

  "Sybil". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 1, 1845.

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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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• Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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  Magnificence, Splendor, Wealth

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “The young duke. Count Alarcos”

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• I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

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  Trust, Spring, Exercise

  'Vivian Grey' (1826) bk. 6, ch. 7

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• I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Pages, Blank, New Testament

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• That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

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  Country, Peace, War

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• War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Peace, War, Aggravation

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• One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

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  Men, Ideas, Conquer The World

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.293

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• Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Political, Principles

  Attributed to Disraeli and believed to have been said to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in E. Latham 'Famous Sayings and their Authors' (1904) p. 11

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• Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

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  Perseverance, Moving, Two

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• We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

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  Inspirational, Life, Fate

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Alroy: A Romance”, p.81

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• You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the
  Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

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  Europe, Intellectual, Movement

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.183

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• The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  World, Wheels, Rounds

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

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