Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRSwas a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth21 December 1804
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The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
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A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
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In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
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With words we govern men.
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The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
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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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Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.
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Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.
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Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.
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There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.
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Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.
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The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
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An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.