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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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.
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We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
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Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.
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Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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When I want to read a novel, I write one.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations
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Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman
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Every product of genius must be the product of enthusiasm.
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd