Benjamin Disraeli Zitate auf Englisch

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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Never take anything for granted.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

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

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Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

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

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The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

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

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I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

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

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London is a roost for every bird.

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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

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London is a modern Babylon.

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

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There is no gambling like politics.

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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

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Despair is the conclusion of fools.

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