Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
¶ (Attributed)
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English politician and author
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
¶ (Attributed)
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
¶ (Attributed)
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
¶ (Attributed)
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
¶ (Attributed)
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
¶ Coningsby, bk. 3, ch. 1 (1844)
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
¶ Henrietta Temple, bk. 2, ch. 4 (1837)
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
¶ Lothair, ch. 41 (Lothair) (1870)
Frank and explicit — that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
¶ Sybil, "The Gentleman in Downing Street," bk 6, ch 1 (1845)
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
¶ The Infernal Marriage (1834)
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
¶ Campaign speech, High Wycombe, England (27 Nov. 1832)
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
¶ Speech (24 Jan. 1860)
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Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
¶ Speech (25 Nov. 1864)
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