Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.


The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume the First (ed. 1776)

Edward Gibbon Quotes

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.