Isaac Disraeli
Isaac Disraeli
Isaac D'Israeliwas a British writer, scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and as the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli...
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men care golden
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
real men golden
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
iron age golden
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
create fools fools-and-foolishness repeat wise
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
american-celebrity experience preserved wisdom
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
courage famous plant popularity progress resisted seemed suspected taste though
The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected at first, though very palatable to those who had courage to taste it; resisted as it encroached; abused as its popularity seemed to spread; and establishing its
natural sentiments oneself
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
literature way folly
It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.
wise art eye
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.
criticism candour gems
Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
men style pulse
Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.
lovers action ceremony
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
horse war book
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
greatness men thinking
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.