Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

A precedent embalms a principle.

A precedent embalms a principle.

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in...

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in...

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to...

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to...

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

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

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

His Christianity was muscular

His Christianity was muscular

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

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

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

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who...

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who...

Life is too short to be small.

Life is too short to be small.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the...

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the...

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business...

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business...

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

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

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