Benjamin Disraeli Zitate auf Englisch

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

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We cannot learn men from books.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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There is no education like adversity.

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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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Success is the child of audacity.

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It is easier to be critical than correct.

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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Finality is not the language of politics.

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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

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Man is only great when he acts from passion.

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

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Justice is truth in action.

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Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

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Duty cannot exist without faith.

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Adventures are to the adventurous.

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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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