Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield was a British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The anniversary of his death on 19 April is known as Primrose Day.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be small.

Benjamin Disraeli

We are all born for love...it is the principle existence and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

Travel teaches toleration.

Benjamin Disraeli

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

Benjamin Disraeli

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

Justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Benjamin Disraeli

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Benjamin Disraeli

Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Benjamin Disraeli

A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Benjamin Disraeli

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Benjamin Disraeli

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.

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