John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli. (1804–1881) (continued) |
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| A public man of light and leading. |
| Sybil. Book v. Chap. i. |
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| The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. |
| Sybil. Book vi. Chap. xiii. |
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| Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime. |
| Henrietta Temple. Book ii. Chap. i. |
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| What we anticipate seldom occurs; 1 what we least expected generally happens. |
| Henrietta Temple. Book ii. Chap. iv. |
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| Time is the great physician. |
| Henrietta Temple. Book vi. Chap. ix. |
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| Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. |
| Henrietta Temple. Book vi. Chap. xxiv. |
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| Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. |
| Coningsby. Book iii. Chap. i. |
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| Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. |
| Coningsby. Book iii. Chap. i. |
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| Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. |
| Coningsby. Book iii. Chap. i. |
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| The frigid theories of a generalizing age. |
| Coningsby. Book ix. Chap. vii. |
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| He was fresh and full of faith that “something would turn up.” |
| Tancred. Book iii. Chap. vi. |
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| Everything comes if a man will only wait. 2 |
| Tancred. Book iv. Chap. viii. (1847). |
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| The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. |
| Lothair. Chap. xvii. |
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| That when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire. |
| Lothair. Chap. xxviii. |
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| Every woman should marry—and no man. |
| Lothair. Chap. xxx. |
| Note 1. See S. W. Foss, page 839. [back] |
| Note 2. See Emerson, page 617. All things come round to him who will but wait.—Longfellow: Tales of a Wayside Inn. The Student’s Tale. (1862). [back] |