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Disraeli, Benjamin
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
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Compromise
Man is more powerful than matter.
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Circumstance
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Circumstance
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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Expediency
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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Determination
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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Civilization
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
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Doubt
To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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Ignorance
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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Critics and Criticism
On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.
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Education
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
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Critics and Criticism
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
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Consistency
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Education
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Desperation
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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Education
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
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Character
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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Circumstance
Duty cannot exist without faith.
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Duty
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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Bores and Boredom
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
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Cycles
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
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Christians and Christianity
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
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Character
There is no education like adversity.
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Education
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Books - Reading
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Books - Reading
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
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Destiny
The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
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Evolution
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Explanations
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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Health
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
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Fate
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
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Greatness
He has not a single redeeming defect.
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Faults
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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Friends and Friendship
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
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Facts
Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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Frankness
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
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Heroes and Heroism
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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Genius
Genius, when young, is divine.
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Genius
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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Grief
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
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Greatness
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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Law and Lawyers
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.
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Inhibition
It destroys one s nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Marriage
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Learning
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
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Travel and Tourism
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
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Leaders and Leadership
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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Ideas
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
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Mediocrity
Little things affect little minds.
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Mediocrity
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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Leaders and Leadership
Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Power
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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Inequality
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Learning
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Love
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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Humankind
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
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Love
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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Inspiration
Justice is truth in action.
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Justice
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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Liberals
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
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Liberals
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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Manners
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
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Management
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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Life and Living
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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Politicians and Politics
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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Planning
We moralize among ruins.
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Morality
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
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Reason
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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Preparation
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Nations
A precedent embalms a principle.
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Tradition
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
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Politicians and Politics
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Politicians and Politics
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
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Politicians and Politics
Finality is not the language of politics.
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Politicians and Politics
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
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Politicians and Politics
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.
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Peace
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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Politicians and Politics
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
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Politicians and Politics
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
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Politicians and Politics
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
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Opinions
Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
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Trade
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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Politicians and Politics
Travel teaches tolerance.
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Tolerance
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Opportunity
Great countries are those that produce great people.
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Nations
It is the lot of man to suffer.
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Suffering
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
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Neighbors
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
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Parliament
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.
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Opposition
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
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News
Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
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Plagiarism
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
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Nature
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
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Truth
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Statistics
The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
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Success
Success is the child of audacity.
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Success
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
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Purpose
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
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Tact and Tactfulness
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Truth
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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Religion
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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Truth
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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Sincerity
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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Success
A person s fate is their own temper.
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Temperament
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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Thoughts and Thinking
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
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Silence
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
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Speakers and Speaking
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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Royalty
Damn your principals. Stick to your Party!
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Unity
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
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Science and Scientists
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
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Public Opinion
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
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Tact and Tactfulness
Silence is the mother of truth.
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Silence
The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
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Purpose
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.
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Quotations
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
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Enthusiasm
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm
Frank and explicit -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
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Candor
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Courage
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
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Expectation
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Change
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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Fame
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
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Candor
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Action
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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Age and Aging
Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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Age and Aging
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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Anecdotes
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Biography
Amusement to an observing mind is study.
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Amusement
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Assassination
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Agreement
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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Country
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
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Economy and Economics
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
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Agents
There is no wisdom like frankness.
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Candor
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
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Alliances
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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Cities and City Life
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
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Will and Will Power
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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Youth
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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Worry
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
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Value
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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Youth
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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Youth
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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Writers and Writing