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Our Domestic Affections Are The Most Salutary Basis Of All Good Government.

As For Our Majority... One Is Enough.

Twilight Makes Us Pensive; Aurora Is The Goddess Of Activity; Despair Curses At Midnight; Hope Blesses At Noon.

He Was One Of These Men Who Think That The World Can Be Saved By Writing A Pamphlet.

All My Successes Have Been Built On My Failures.

Failure Inspirational

The Practice Of Politics In The East May Be Defined By One Word: Dissimulation.

What Art Was To The Ancient World, Science Is To The Modern; The Distinctive Faculty. In The Minds Of Men, The Useful Has Succeeded To The Beautiful.

Things Must Be Done By Parties, Not By Persons Using Parties As Tools.

You Have Despoiled Churches. You Have Threatened Every Corporation And Endowment In The Country. You Have Examined Into Everybodys Affairs. You Have Criticised Every Profession And Vexed Every Trade. No One Is Certain Of His Property, And Nobody Knows What Duties He May Have To Perform To-morrow. This Is The Policy Of Confiscation As Compared With That Of Concurrent Endowment.

Life Is Not Dated Merely By Years. Events Are Sometimes The Best Calendars.

I Grew Intoxicated With My Own Eloquence.

Conservatism... Offers No Redress For The Present, And Makes No Preparation For The Future.

The Pursuit Of Science Leads Only To The Insoluble.

Silence Often Expresses 'more Powerfully Than Speech The Verdict And Judgment Of Society.

The Athanasian Creed Is The Most Splendid Ecclesiastical Lyric Ever Poured Forth By The Genius Of Man.

There Are Some Silent People Who Are More Interesting Than The Best Talkers.

The Difference Between Talent And Genius Is This: While The Former Usually Develops Some Special Branch Of Our Faculties, The Latter Commands Them All. When The Former Is Combined With Tact, It Is Often More Than A Match For The Latter.

Principle Is Ever My Motto, No Expediency.

I Do Not Like Giving Advice: It Is Incurring An Unnecessary Responsibility.

Without Dancing You Can Never Attain A Perfectly Graceful Carriage, Which Is Of The Highest Importance In Life.

Never Apologize For Showing Feeling. When You Do So, You Apologize For The Truth.

The Greatest Of All Evils Is A Weak Government

Weak Government

Why, I Say, That To Tax The Community For The Advantage Of A Class Is Not Protection; It Is Plunder, And I Entirely Disclaim It; But I Ask You To Protect The Rights And Interests Of Labour Generally In The First Place, By Allowing No Free Imports From Countries Which Meet You With Countervailing Duties; And, In The Second Place, With Respect To Agricultural Produce, To Compensate The Soil For The Burdens From Which Other Classes Are Free By An Equivalent Duty. This Is My View Of What Is Called "protection."

It Is The Fashion To Style The Present Moment An Extraordinary Crisis.

Destiny Is Our Will, And Our Will Is Nature.

All Of Us Encounter, At Least Once In Our Life, Some Individual Who Utters Words That Make Us Think Forever. There Are Men Whose Phrases Are Oracles; Who Condense In One Sentence The Secrets Of Life; Who Blurt Out An Aphorism That Forms A Character Or Illustrates An Existence.

The Greatest Good You Can Do For Another Is Not Just To Share Your Riches But To Reveal To Him His Own.

There Is No Gambling Like Politics.

A Nation Will Not Count The Sacrifice It Makes, If It Supposes It Is Engaged In A Struggle For Its Fame, Its Influence And Its Existence.

Turtle Makes All Men Equal.

Why Should One Say That The Machine Does Not Live? It Breathes, For Its Breath Forms The Atmosphere Of Some Towns.

We Are Indeed A Nation Of Shopkeepers.

There Can Be No Economy Where There Is No Efficiency.

Here's To The Man Who Rode The Race, Who Took The Time, Who Kept The Time, And Who Did The Trick.

A Nation, As An Individual, Has Duties To Fulfill Appointed By God And His Moral Law.

No One But An Adventurous Traveler Can Know The Luxury Of Sleep.

Her Majesty Is Not A Subject.

England Does Not Love Coalitions.

We Should Never Lose An Occasion. Opportunity Is More Powerful Even Than Conquerors And Prophets.

More Pernicious Nonsense Was Never Devised By Man Than Treaties Of Commerce.

You Never Observe A Great Intellectual Movement In Europe In Which The Jews Do Not Greatly Participate. The First Jesuits Were Jews.

Proverbs Were Anterior To Boots, And Formed The Wisdom Of The Vulgar, And In The Earliest Ages Were The Unwritten Laws Of Morality.

Increased Means And Increased Leisure Are The Two Civilizers Of Man.

A Practical Man Is A Man Who Practices The Errors Of His Forefathers.

Perseverance And Tact Are The Two Most Important Qualities For The Individual Who Wants To Move Ahead.

No, It Is Better Not. She Will Only Ask Me To Take A Message To Albert.

"sorry" Only Counts For That Which It Cannot Alter.

The British People, Being Subject To Fogs, Require Grave Statesmen.

Everything Comes If A Man Will Only Wait.

What Art Was To The Ancient World, Science Is To The Modern: The Distinctive Faculty. In The Minds Of Men The Useful Has Succeeded To The Beautiful. Instead Of The City Of The Violet Crown, A Lancashire Village Has Expanded Into A Mighty Region Of Factories And Warehouses. Yet, Rightly Understood, Manchester Is As Great A Human Exploit; As Athens.

A Majority Is Always Better Than The Best Repartee.

To Tax The Community For The Advantage Of A Class Is Not Protection: It Is Plunder.

Great Services Are Not Canceled By One Act Or By One Single Error.

Gentlemen, The Tory Party, Unless It Is A National Party, Is Nothing.

Propriety Of Manners, And Consideration For Others, Are The Two Main Characteristics Of A Gentleman.

My Idea Of An Acceptable Person Is Someone That Is Ready To Accept My Ideas.

An Amateur May Not Be An Artist, Though An Artist Should Be An Amateur.

The Tone And Tendency Of Liberalism...is To Attack The Institutions Of The Country Under The Name Of Reform And To Make War On The Manners And Customs Of The People Under The Pretext Of Progress.

It Is Knowledge That Influences And Equalizes The Social Condition Of Man; That Gives To All, However Different Their Political Position, Passions Which Are In Common, And Enjoyments Which Are Universal.

To Achieve What You Want, You Have To Be Stronger Than Those Around You

The Expected Always Happens

Almost Everything That Is Great Has Been Done By Youth.

A Man's Fate Is His Own Temper; And According To That Will Be His Opinion As To The Particular Manner In Which The Course Of Events Is Regulated. A Consistent Man Believes In Destiny, A Capricious Man In Chance.

For Nearly Five Years The Present Ministers Have Harassed Every Trade, Worried Every Profession, And Assailed Or Menaced Every Class, Institution, And Species Of Property In The Country. Occasionally They Have Varied This State Of Civil Warfare By Perpetrating Some Job Which Outraged Public Opinion, Or By Stumbling Into Mistakes Which Have Been Always Discreditable, And Sometimes Ruinous. All This They Call A Policy, And Seem Quite Proud Of It; But The Country Has, I Think, Made Up Its Mind To Close This Career Of Plundering And Blundering.

Small Things Affects Small Minds.

Christianity Is Completed Judaism Or It Is Nothing.

When A Man Fell Into His Anecdotage It Was A Sign For Him To Retire From The World.

The Eyes Of The Social Herd, Who Always Observe Little Things, And Generally Form From Them Their Opinions Of Great Affairs.

The Feathered Arrow Of Satire Has Oft Been Wet With The Heart's Blood Of Its Victims.

Nobody Is Forgotten, When It Is Convenient To Remember Him.

What We Call Public Opinion Is Generally Public Sentiment.

We Have Legalized Confiscation, Consecrated Sacrilege, And Condoned High Treason.

Trust Not Overmuch To The Blessed Magdalen; Learn To Protect Yourself.

Protect Yourself

To Do Nothing And Get Something, Formed A Boy's Ideal Of A Manly Career.

I Believe That, Without Party, Parliamentary Government Is Impossible.

Taste, When Once Obtained, May Be Said To Be No Acquiring Faculty, And Must Remain Stationary; But Knowledge Is Of Perpetual Growth And Has Infinite Demands. Taste, Like An Artificial Canal, Winds Through A Beautiful Country, But Its Borders Are Confined And Its Term Is Limited. Knowledge Navigates The Ocean, And Is Perpetually On Voyages Of Discovery.

Grief Is The Agony Of An Instant. The Indulgence Of Grief The Blunder Of A Life.

This Is The Third Time That, In The Course Of Six Years, During Which I Have Had The Lead Of The Opposition In The House Of Commons, I Have Stormed The Treasury Benches: Twice, Fruitlessly, The Third Time With A Tin Kettle To My Tail Which Rendered The Race Hopeless. You Cannot, Therefore, Be Surprised, That I Am A Little Wearied Of These Barren Victories, Which Like Alma, Inkerman, And Balaclava, May Be Glorious But Are Certainly Nothing More.

Silence Is The Mother Of Truth.

I Was Told, Continued Egremont, That An Impassable Gulf Divided The Rich From The Poor; I Was Told That The Privileged And The People Formed Two Nations, Governed By Different Laws, Influenced By Different Manners, With No Thoughts Or Sympathies In Common; With An Innate Inability Of Mutual Comprehension.

We Live In Age Of Prudence. The Leaders Of The People Now Generally Follow.

There Is Magic In The Memory Of Schoolboy Friendships; It Softens The Heart, And Even Affects The Nervous System Of Those Who Have No Heart.

Great Men Should Think Of Opportunity And Not Of Time. That Is The Excuse Of Feeble And Puzzled Spirits.

In The Study Of The Fine Arts, They Mutually Assist Each Other.

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Jews Show So Near An Affinity To You... Where Is Your Christianity If You Do Not Believe In Their Judaism?

The Canter Is A Cure For Every Evil.

In The Hands Of A Genius, Engineering Turns To Magic, Philosophy Becomes Poetry, And Science Pure Imagination.

People Are Defeated By Easy, Victorious And Cheap Successes More Than By Adversity.

Christianity Teaches Us To Love Our Neighbor As Ourself; Modern Society Acknowledges No Neighbor.

You Have Proved It Is A Very Moral Habit.

There Is No Education Like Adversity.

The Care Of The Public Health Is The First Duty Of The Statesman.

The Palace Is Not Safe When The Cottage Is Not Happy.

The Delight Of Opening A New Pursuit, Or A New Course Of Reading, Imparts The Vivacity And Novelty Of Youth Even To Old Age.

What Wonderful Things Are Events! The Least Are Of Greater Importance Than The Most Sublime And Comprehensive Speculations.

The Enterprise Of America Precedes That Of Europe, As The Industry Of England Precedes That Of The Rest Of Europe.

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.

Those Who Cannot Themselves Observe Can At Least Acquire The Observation Of Others.

The World Is Devoted To Physical Science, Because It Believes Theses Discoveries Will Increase Its Capacity Of Luxury And Self-indulgence. But The Pursuit Of Science Only Leads To The Insoluble.

The Character Of A Woman Rapidly Develops After Marriage, And Sometimes Seems To Change, When In Fact It Is Only Complete.

As A Rule, He Or She Who Has The Most Information Will Have The Greatest Success In Life.

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Fear Makes Us Feel Our Humanity.

England Is Unrivalled For Two Things - Sport And Politics.

The Art Of Conversation Is To Be Prompt Without Being Stubborn, To Refute Without Argument, And To Clothe Great Matters In A Motley Garb.

A Protestant, If He Wants Aid Or Advice On Any Matter, Can Only Go To His Solicitor.

The Tendency Of An Advanced Civilization Is In Truth Monarchy.

Coalitions Though Successful Have Always Found This, That Their Triumph Has Been Brief.

I Am Myself A Gentleman Of The Press, And Have No Other Escutcheon.

The Age Does Not Believe In Great Men, Because It Does Not Possess Any.

Predominant Opinions Are Generally The Opinions Of The Generation That Is Vanishing.

Nothing In Life Is More Remarkable Than The Unnecessary Anxiety Which We Endure, And Generally Create Ourselves.

The Depositary Of Power Is Always Unpopular.

There Is Anguish In The Recollection That We Have Not Adequately Appreciated The Affection Of Those Whom We Have Loved And Lost.

There Are Few Positions Less Inspiriting Than Those Of A Discomfited Party.

Like All Great Travellers, I Have Seen More Than I Remember, And Remember More Than I Have Seen.

Free Trade Is Not A Principle, It Is An Expedient.

Bore: One Who Has The Power Of Speech But Not The Capacity For Conversation.

One Secret Of Success In Life Is For A Man To Be Ready For His Opportunity When It Comes.

Youth Is The Trustee Of Prosperity.

The World Is Ruled By Other People, Than People Believe To Know.

The Services In Wartime Are Fit Only For Desperadoes, But In Peace Are Only Fit For Fools.

To Be Conscious That You Are Ignorant Of The Facts Is A Great Step To Knowledge.

We Are All Born For Love. It Is The Principle Of Existence, And Its Only End.

No Government Can Be Long Secure Without A Formidable Opposition.

Debt Is A Prolific Mother Of Folly And Of Crime.

To Supervise People, You Must Either Surpass Them In Their Accomplishments Or Despise Them.

The Sympathy Of Sorrow Is Stronger Than The Sympathy Of Prosperity.

That Earliest Shock In One's Life Which Occurs To All Of Us; Which First Makes Us Think.

Life Is To Short To Be Small.

Let The Fear Of A Danger Be A Spur To Prevent It; He That Fears Not, Gives Advantage To The Danger.

What Appear To Be Calamities Are Often The Sources Of Fortune.

As A General Rule, The Most Successful Man In Life Is The Man Who Has The Best Information.

The Continent Will Not Suffer England To Be The Workshop Of The World.

He Who Anticipates His Century Is Generally Persecuted When Living, And Always Pilfered When Dead.

Real Politics Are The Possession And Distribution Of Power.

Distribution Of Power

All Is Mystery; But He Is A Slave Who Will Not Struggle To Penetrate The Dark Veil.

The Art Of Governing Mankind By Deceiving Them.

The More Extensive A Man's Knowledge Of What Has Been Done, The Greater Will Be His Power Of Knowing What To Do.

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.

The Fool Wonders, The Wise Man Asks.

Man Is More Powerful Than Matter.

Tobacco Is The Tomb Of Love.

It Is The Lot Of Man To Suffer; It Is Also His Fortune To Forget. Oblivion And Sorrow Share Our Being, As Darkness And Light Divide The Course Of Time.

There Is Scarcely Any Popular Tenet More Erroneous Than That Which Holds That When Time Is Slow, Life Is Dull.

The Noble Lord Is The Rupert Of Debate.

In All Church Discussions We Are Apt To Forget The Second Testament Is Avowedly Only A Supplement. Jesus Came To Complete The Law And The Prophets. Christianity Is Completed Judaism, Or It Is Nothing. Christianity Is Incomprehensible Without Judaism, As Judaism Is Incomplete Without Christianity.

Nature, Like Man, Sometimes Weeps From Gladness.

A New Acquaintance Is Like A New Book. I Prefer It, Even If Bad, To A Classic.

You Must Originate, And You Must Sympathize; Yon Must Possess, At The Same Time, The Habit Of Communicating And The Habit Of Listening. The Union Is Rather Rare, But Irresistible.

No Man Is Regular In His Attendance At The House Of Commons Until He Is Married.

Assassination Has Never Changed The History Of The World.

The Wisdom Of The Wise And The Experience Of The Ages Are Perpetuated By Quotations.

Time Is Precious, But Truth Is More Precious Than Time.

Enthusiasm Is The Breath Of Genius.

An Insular Country, Subject To Fogs, And With A Powerful Middle Class, Requires Grave Statesmen.

Every Production Of Genius Must Be The Production Of Enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm For Life

The Divine Right Of Kings May Have Been A Plea For Feeble Tyrants, But The Divine Right Of Government Is The Keystone Of Human Progress, And Without It Governments Sink Into Police, And A Nation Is Degraded Into A Mob.

Were It Not For Music, We Might In These Days Say, The Beautiful Is Dead.

Give A Man A Fish And He Will Eat For A Day; Teach A Man To Fish And He Will Eat For A Lifetime; Give A Man Religion And He Will Die Praying For A Fish.

Teach A Man To Fish

The Legacy Of Heroes Is The Memory Of A Great Name And The Inheritance Of A Great Example.

Nurture Your Mind With Great Thoughts, For You Will Never Go Any Higher Than You Think.

Protection Is Not A Principle But An Expedient

The Indulgence In Grief Is A Blunder.

A Consistent Soul Believes In Destiny, A Capricious One In Chance.

Religion Is Civilization, The Highest.

It Is Useless To Deny, And Impossible To Conceal, That A Great Part Of Europe, The Whole Of Italy And France, And A Great Portion Of Germany, To Say Nothing Of Other Countries - Is Covered With A Network Of These Secret Societies, Just As The Superfices Of The Earth Are Being Covered With Railroads.

Beauty And Health Are The Chief Sources Of Happiness.

Source Of Happiness

You Know, All Is Development. The Principle Is Perpetually Going On. First, There Was Nothing, Then There Was Something; Then-i Forget The Next-i Think There Were Shells, Then Fishes; Then We Came-let Me See-did We Come Next? Never Mind That; We Came At Last. And At The Next Change There Will Be Something Very Superior To Us-something With Wings. Ah! That's It: We Were Fishes, And I Believe We Shall Be Crows.

If You Establish A Democracy, You Must In Due Time Reap The Fruits Of A Democracy. You Will In Due Season Have Great Impatience Of Public Burdens, Combined In Due Season With Great Increase Of Public Expenditure. You Will In Due Season Have Wars Entered Into From Passion And Not From Reason; And You Will In Due Season Submit To Peace Ignominiously Sought And Ignominiously Obtained, Which Will Diminish Your Authority And Perhaps Endanger Your Independence. You Will In Due Season Find Your Property Is Less Valuable, And Your Freedom Less Complete.

Success Is The Child Of Audacity.

We Make Our Fortunes And We Call Them Fate.

The English Nation Is Never So Great As In Adversity.

Patriotism Depends As Much On Mutual Suffering As On Mutual Success; And It Is By That Experience Of All Fortunes And All Feelings That A Great National Character Is Created.

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.

The Most Powerful Men Are Not Public Men: A Public Man Is Responsible, And A Responsible Man Is A Slave. It Is Private Life That Governs The World.

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 Fervour.

Life Is Too Short

That Soul-subduing Sentiment, Harshly Called Flirtation, Which Is The Spell Of A Country House.

A Book May Be As Great A Thing As A Battle.

Circumstances Are Beyond Human Control, But Our Conduct Is In Our Own Power.

I Will Sit Down Now, But The Time Will Come When You Will Hear Me.

A Dark Horse, Which Had Never Been Thought Of, Rushed Past The Grandstand In Sweeping Triumph.

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.

How Fair Is A Garden Amid The Toils And Passions Of Existence.

You Can Tell The Strength Of A Nation By The Women Behind Its Men.

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.

Success Is A Product Of Unremitting Attention To Purpose.

One Event Makes Another. What We Anticipate Seldom Occurs; What We Least Expected Generally Happens; And Time Can Only Prove Which Is Most For Our Advantage.

Ignorance Never Settles A Question.

Sir, I Shall Not Defeat You - I Shall Transcend You.

It Has Been Said That The People Of This Country Are Deeply Interested In The Humanitarian And Philanthropic Considerations Involved In [the Eastern Question]. All Must Appreciate Such Feelings. But I Am Mistaken If There Be Not A Yet Deeper Sentiment On The Part Of The People Of This Country, One With Which I Cannot Doubt Your Lordships Will Ever Sympathise, And That Is - The Determination To Maintain The Empire Of England.

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.

Nothing Can Withstand The Power Of The Human Will If It Is Willing To Stake Its Very Existence To The Extent Of Its Purpose.

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.

Though I Sit Down Now, The Time Will Come Whenyou Will Hear Me.

There Is No Diplomacy Like Silence.

Change Is Inevitable. Change Is Constant.

Novelty Is An Essential Attribute Of The Beautiful.

There Can Be Economy Only Where There Is Efficiency.

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