Benjamin Disraeli Quotes - Page 9

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• Duty cannot exist without faith

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Duty

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.139

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• The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Angel, Men, Apes

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech at Oxford Diocesan conference, November 25, 1864.

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• You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Criticism, Literature

  "The Sayings of Disraeli".

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• Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Change, Resistance, Inexorable

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• Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Hair, Worry, Pulse

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• Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

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  Sister, Sweet, Brother

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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• I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

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  Success, Lasts

  Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Memorials of Lord Beaconsfield Reprinted Fron: With a Portrait”

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• No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

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  Confused, Men, Keys

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• When I want to read a novel, I write one.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiration, Reading, Writing

  In W. Monypenny and G. Buckle 'The Life of Benjamin Disraeli' vol. 6 (1920) ch. 17.

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• Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the
  arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

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  Men, Islands, Race

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.169

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• With words we govern men.

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  Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.90

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• Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

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  Friendship, Men, Boon

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

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  Art, Society, Politics

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.438

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• Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

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  Philosophy, Moderation, Divine

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• Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

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  Criticism, Sincerity, Candor

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• Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Winning, Persistence

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

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  Inspiring, Sports, Memorial Day

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• Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

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  Order, Matter, Taste

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Man is only great when he acts from passion.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Passion

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

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• Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

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  Children, Eloquence

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.267

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• Fear makes us feel our humanity.

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  Fear, Fearless, Humanity

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.147, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

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  People, World, Enthusiasm

  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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• It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

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  Wisdom, Fashion, Intelligence

  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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• Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

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  Views, Data, Turns

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.173

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• The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.

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  Believe, People, World

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