Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Quality
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Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.
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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.
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I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.
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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
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I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Benjamin Disraeli
- Born: December 21, 1804
- Died: April 19, 1881
- Occupation: Former Leader of the House of Commons