“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

— Benjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy

About Benjamin Disraeli

1804 – 1881

British statesman, twice Prime Minister, and novelist.

“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”

“Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.”

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

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“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”