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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A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.
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A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.
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When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.
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A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
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An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
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The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.
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You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
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Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
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Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
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The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
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Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.