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Expediency Is A Law Of Nature. The Camel Is A Wonderful Animal, But The Desert Made The Camel.

What We Call Public Opinion Is Generally Public Sentiment.

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

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Action May Not Always Bring Happiness; But There Is No Happiness Without Action.

Man Is Made To Create, From The Poet To The Potter.

I Have Been Ever Of Opinion That Revolutions Are Not To Be Evaded.

All My Successes Have Been Built On My Failures.

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

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.

I Believe Absence Is A Great Element Of Charm.

London Owes Everything To Its Press: It Owes As Much To Its Press As It Does To Its Being The Seat Of Government And The Law.

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

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

Variety Is The Mother Of Enjoyment.

Having The Courage To Live Within One's Means Is Respectability.

Be Amusing: Never Tell Unkind Stories; Above All, Never Tell Long Ones.

This Is To Be Observed Of The Bishop Of London, That, Though Apparently Of A Spirit Somewhat Austere, There Is In His Idiosyncrasy A Strange Fund Of Enthusiasm, A Quality Which Ought Never To Be Possessed By An Archbishop Of Canterbury, Or A Prime Minister Of England. The Bishop Of London Sympathies With Everything That Is Earnest; But What Is Earnest Is Not Always True; On The Contrary Error Is Often More Earnest Than Truth.

O Music! Miraculous Art! A Blast Of Thy Trumpet And Millions Rush Forward To Die; A Peal Of Thy Organ And Uncounted Nations Sink Down To Pray.

A Good Eater Must Be A Good Man; For A Good Eater Must Have A Good Digestion, And A Good Digestion Depends Upon A Good Conscience.

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

You Behold A Range Of Exhausted Volcanoes. Not A Flame Flickers On A Single Pallid Crest.

With Words We Govern Men.

I Pride Myself In Recognizing And Upholding Ability In Every Party And Wherever I Meet It.

Great Countries Are Those That Produce Great People.

No Man Will Treat With Indifference The Principle Of Race. It Is The Key To History, And Why History Is Often So Confused Is That It Has Been Written By Men Who Are Ignorant Of This Principle And All The Knowledge It Involves. . . Language And Religion Do Not Make A Race--there Is Only One Thing Which Makes A Race, And That Is Blood.

At Present The Peace Of The World Has Been Preserved, Not By Statesmen, But By Capitalists.

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.

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Man Is Only Great When He Acts From Passion.

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

Ah, Ireland... That Damnable, Delightful Country, Where Everything That Is Right Is The Opposite Of What It Ought To Be.

As For Our Majority... One Is Enough.

Meditation Is Culture.

A Beautiful Hand Is An Excellent Thing In Woman; It Is A Charm That Never Palls; And Better Than All, It Is A Means Of Fascinating That Never Disappears.

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.

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

Her Majesty Is Not A Subject.

A Realist Is A Man Who Insists On Making The Same Mistakes His Grandfather Did.

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

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

The Press Is Not Only Free, It Is Powerful. That Power Is Ours. It Is The Proudest That Man Can Enjoy. It Was Not Granted By Monarchs, It Was Not Gained For Us By Aristocracies; But It Sprang From The People, And, With An Immortal Instinct, It Has Always Worked For The People.

Of All Unfortunate Men One Of The Unhappiest Is A Middling Author Endowed With Too Lively A Sensibility For Criticism.

The Right Honourable Gentleman Caught The Whigs Bathing, And Walked Away With Their Clothes. He Has Left Them In The Full Enjoyment Of Their Liberal Positions, And He Is Himself A Strict Conservative Of Their Garments.

The First Favourite Was Never Heard Of, The Second Favourite Was Never Seen After The Distance Post, All The Ten-to-oners Were In The Rear, And A Dark Horse Which Had Never Been Thought Of, And Which The Careless St. James Had Never Even Observed In The List, Rushed Past The Grand Stand In Sweeping Triumph.

As A General Rule, Nobody Has Money Who Ought To Have It.

I Am Prepared For The Worst, But Hope For The Best.

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

Departure Should Be Sudden.

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

We Are Taught Words, Not Ideas.

As I Sat Opposite The Treasury Bench The Ministers Reminded Me Of One Of Those Marine Landscapes Not Very Unusual On The Coasts Of South America. You Behold A Range Of Exhausted Volcanoes.

Plagiarists, At Least, Have The Merit Of Preservation.

I Grew Intoxicated With My Own Eloquence.

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

'a Sound Conservative Government,' Said Taper, Musingly. 'i Understand: Tory Men And Whig Measures.'

Governments Do Not Govern, But Merely Control The Machinery Of Government, Being Themselves Controlled By The Hidden Hand.

Desperation Is Sometimes As Powerful An Inspirer As Genius.

We Are Indeed A Nation Of Shopkeepers.

In Art The Greeks Were The Children Of The Egyptians. The Day May Yet Come When We Shall Do Justice To The High Powers Of That Mysterious And Imaginative People.

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.

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Whenever You See A Man Who Is Successful In Society, Try To Discover What Makes Him Pleasing, And If Possible Adopt His System.

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

A Member Of Parliament To Disraeli: 'sir, You Will Either Die On The Gallows Or Of Some Unspeakable Disease.' That Depends, Sir,' Said Disraeli, 'whether I Embrace Your Policies Or Your Mistress.

All Power Is A Trust, That We Are Accountable For Its Exercise.

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.

Religion Is Civilization, The Highest.

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

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The Youth Of A Nation Are The Trustees Of Posterity.

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

Without Publicity There Can Be No Public Support, And Without Public Support Every Nation Must Decay.

The Duke Of Wellington Brought To The Post Of First Minister Immortal Fame,-a Quality Of Success Which Would Almost Seem To Include All Others.

The European Talks Of Progress Because By The Aid Of A Few Scientific Discoveries He Has Established A Society Which Has Mistaken Comfort For Civilisation.

The Magic Of First Love Is Our Ignorance That It Can Ever End.

What We Anticipate Seldom Occurs; What We Least Expect Generally Happens.

The Tendency Of An Advanced Civilization Is In Truth Monarchy.

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.

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.

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

It Is Well-known What A Middleman Is: He Is A Man Who Bamboozles One Party And Plunders The Other.

The Canter Is A Cure For Every Evil.

There Can Be Economy Only Where There Is Efficiency.

When I Left The Dining Room After Sitting Next To Mr. Gladstone, I Thought He Was The Cleverest Man In England. But After Sitting Next To Mr. Disraeli, I Thought I Was The Cleverest Woman In England.

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.

I Rather Like Bad Wine; One Gets So Bored With Good Wine.

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

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

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

Change Is As Inexorable As Time, Yet Nothing Meets With More Resistance.

Destiny Is Our Will, And Our Will Is Nature.

No Government Can Be Long Secure Without A Formidable Opposition.

Fear Makes Us Feel Our Humanity.

What Is Earnest Is Not Always True; On The Contrary Error Is Often More Earnest Than Truth.

If The History Of England Be Ever Written By One Who Has The Knowledge And The Courage,-and Both Qualities Are Equally Requisite For The Undertaking, - The World Will Be More Astonished Than When Reading The Roman Annals By Niebuhr.

The Pursuit Of Science Leads Only To The Insoluble.

Youth Is The Trustee Of Prosperity.

Lord Salisbury And Myself Have Brought You Back Peace--but A Peace I Hope With Honour.

The World Is Weary Of Statesmen Whom Democracy Has Degraded Into Politicians.

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Seeing Much, Suffering Much, And Studying Much, Are The Three Pillars Of Learning.

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.

Something Unpleasant Is Coming When Men Are Anxious To Tell The Truth.

Success Is The Child Of Audacity.

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

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

Read No History: Nothing But Biography, For That Is Life Without Theory.

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To A Mother, A Child Is Everything; But To A Child, A Parent Is Only A Link In The Chain Of Her Existence.

Luck Is What A Capricious Man Believes In.

I Am Neither A Whig Nor Tory. My Politics Are Described In One Word And That Word Is England.

Fame Has Eagle Wings, And Yet She Mounts Not So High As Man's Desires.

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.

No Conjunction Can Possibly Occur, However Fearful, However Tremendous It May Appear, From Which A Man By His Own Energy May Not Extricate Himself, As A Mariner By The Rattling Of His Cannon Can Dissipate The Impending Waterspout.

Amusement To An Observing Mind Is Study.

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

I Am Bound To Furnish My Antagonists With Arguments, But Not With Comprehension.

Duty Cannot Exist Without Faith

London Is A Modern Babylon.

Beauty And Health Are The Chief Sources Of Happiness.

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Nonsense, When Earnest, Is Impressive, And Sometimes Takes You In. If You Are In A Hurry, You Occasionally Mistake It For Sense.

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.

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.

Principle Is Ever My Motto, No Expediency.

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.

London Is A Roost For Every Bird.

The Characteristic Of The Present Age Is Craving Credulity.

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Christianity Is Completed Judaism Or It Is Nothing.

Diligence Is The Mother Of Good Fortune.

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

Nature Is Stronger Than Education.

Through Perseverance Many People Win Success Out Of What Seemed Destined To Be Certain Failure.

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

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

Whatever They Did, The Elysians Were Careful Never To Be Vehement.

No One For A Moment Can Pretend That Printing Is So Great A Discovery As Writing, Or Algebra As A Language.

Scientific, Like Spiritual Truth, Has Ever From The Beginning Been Descending From Heaven To Man.

The Best Security For Civilization Is The Dwelling, And Upon Properly Appointed And Becoming Dwellings Depends, More Than Anything Else, The Improvement Of Mankind.

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

But What Minutes! Count Them By Sensation, And Not By Calendars, And Each Moment Is A Day.

Man Is Only Truly Great When He Acts From The Passions; Never Irresistible But When He Appeals To The Imagination.

A Nation Has A Fixed Quantity Of Invention, And It Will Make Itself Felt.

Modern Science Has Vindicated The Natural Equality Of Man.

I Am The Blank Page Between The Old And The New Testament.

I Have Always Thought That Every Woman Should Marry, And No Man.

The Girl Of The Period Sets Up To Be Natural, And Is Only Rude; Mistakes Insolence For Innocence; Says Everything That Comes First To Her Lips, And Thinks She Is Gay When She Is Only Giddy.

Patience Is A Necessary Ingredient Of Genius.

There Is No Education Like Adversity.

Poverty Has Its Duties As Well As Its Rights.

There Are Few Young Women In Existence Who Have Not The Power Of Fascinating, If They Choose To Exert It.

I See Before Me The Statue Of A Celebrated Minister, Who Said That Confidence Was A Plant Of Slow Growth. But I Believe, However Gradual May Be The Growth Of Confidence, That Of Credit Requires Still More Time To Arrive At Maturity.

He Thinks Posterity Is A Pack-horse, Always Ready To Be Loaded.

I Will Not Go Down To Posterity Talking Bad Grammar.

Moderation Is The Center Wherein All Philosophies, Both Human And Divine, Meet.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I Think That An Author Who Speaks About His Own Books Is Almost As Bad As A Mother Who Talks About Her Own Children.

The Test Of Political Institutions Is The Condition Of The Country Whose Future They Regulate.

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

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

The Depositary Of Power Is Always Unpopular.

Nine-tenths Of Existing Books Are Nonsense, And The Clever Books Are The Refutation Of That Nonsense.

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

It Destroys One's Nerves To Be Amiable Every Day To The Same Human Being.

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

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.

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

Success Is A Product Of Unremitting Attention To Purpose.

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

It Shows You Exactly How A Star Is Formed; Nothing Else Can Be So Pretty! A Cluster Of Vapor, The Cream Of The Milky Way, A Sort Of Celestial Cheese, Churned Into Light.

We Cannot Learn Men From Books.

Knowledge Of Mankind Is A Knowledge Of Their Passions.

Ignorance Never Settles A Question.

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

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