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Isaac DIsraeli Quotes

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them Picture Quote #1

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract Picture Quote #1

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.] Picture Quote #1

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities Picture Quote #1

Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance Picture Quote #1

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation Picture Quote #1

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A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author Picture Quote #1

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest Picture Quote #1

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team Picture Quote #1

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses Picture Quote #1

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth Picture Quote #1

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire Picture Quote #1

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The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature Picture Quote #1

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins Picture Quote #1

The greater part of our writers,... Have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted Picture Quote #1

And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style Picture Quote #1

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.] (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities. (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance. (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) The greater part of our writers,... Have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes) And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style (Isaac DIsraeli Quotes)