- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Merit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
- Excess
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is moderation even in excess.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
- Nov 07, 2020
Silence is the mother of truth.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
- Elegance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice is truth in action.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Critical
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never take anything for granted.
- Principle
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- Nov 07, 2020
A precedent embalms a principle.
- Nov 07, 2020
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
- Preparation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics nothing is contemptible.
- Capable
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finality is not the language of politics.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no gambling like politics.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for our majority... one is enough.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
- Flattery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
- Explain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never complain and never explain.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without tact you can learn nothing.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
- Efficiency
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Constant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
- Embodies
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
- Despair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Duty cannot exist without faith.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no education like adversity.
- Blunder
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Little things affect little minds.
- Mediocrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
- Nov 07, 2020
We moralize among ruins.
- Great People
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- Nov 07, 2020