Edward Gibbon
Quotations
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“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.” -Edward Gibbon
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“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.” -Edward Gibbon
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“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.” -Edward Gibbon
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“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.” -Edward Gibbon
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“The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.” -Edward Gibbon
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“The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.” -Edward Gibbon
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“Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.” -Edward Gibbon
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“Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.” -Edward Gibbon
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“History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” -Edward Gibbon
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“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.” -Edward Gibbon
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“Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.” -Edward Gibbon
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“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.” -Edward Gibbon
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“Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.” -Edward Gibbon
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“The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.” -Edward Gibbon
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“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.” -Edward Gibbon
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“Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.” -Edward Gibbon
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I was never less alone than when by myself. – Edward Gibbon
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