Edward Gibbon
Historian
1737-04-27
Quotes by Edward Gibbon
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My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
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War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
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... but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
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My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
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War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.
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Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.
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... but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
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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.
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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
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