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Edward Gibbon quotes, quotations, sayings

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon
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I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
Edward Gibbon
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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
William Shakespeare
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Honi soit qui mal y pense. [Evil to him who evil thinks.];"Motto of the Order of the Garter (est. Edward III)
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May Euell Gibbons eat your only copy of the manual!
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The proper question is not, 'How can people motivate others?' but rather, 'How can people create the conditions within which others will motivate themselves?' Edward Deci
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. Edward De Bono
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon
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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
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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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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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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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
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Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
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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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Edward Gibbon
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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Edward Gibbon
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon
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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
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Edward Gibbon
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon
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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Edward Gibbon
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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
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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I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon
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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
Edward Gibbon
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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
Edward Gibbon
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Style is the image of character.
Edward Gibbon
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We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon
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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
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Edward Gibbon
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All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
Edward Gibbon
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We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
Edward Gibbon
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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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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Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.
Jerry Coleman
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We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.
Euell Gibbons
 1004    
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
 1004    


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