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.
From Isaac D'Israeli
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
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