Edward Gibbon Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Edward Gibbon Quotes and Sayings


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    A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    I was never less alone than when by myself. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    Style is the image of character. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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    Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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    We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. Edward Gibbon | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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