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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli
Trust, Time, Truth
Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Benjamin Disraeli
Birthday, Time, Regret
'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 3, ch. 1

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Disappointment, Failure
Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.618, BoD – Books on Demand

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Ethos, Forget
Said to Lord Esher of his relations with Queen Victoria, in Elizabeth Longford 'Victoria R. I' (1964) ch. 27

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time
Benjamin Disraeli's maiden speech in the House of Commons, December 7, 1837.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Youth, Trustees
'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Suffering, Age
'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Benjamin Disraeli
Life, Time, Two Nations
Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Waste, Eternity
Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) (1882). “Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel”

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.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Believe, Maturity
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Men, Race

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Powerful
Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.52

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Benjamin Disraeli
Inspirational, Time, Teenage

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time
Benjamin Disraeli (1872). “Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography”, p.13, Transaction Publishers

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Benjamin Disraeli
Time, Military, Fool