Edward Gibbon Short Quotes

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Such a fact is probable, but undoubtedly false.

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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

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The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

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[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny...

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Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate...

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Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.

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The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

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But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature...

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The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators

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A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

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It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation.

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The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

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Of London:
Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

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Their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth.
On the dons at Oxford

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The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood...

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Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

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[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength...

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The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

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The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language...

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Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade.

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It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.

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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

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But a wild democracy... too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

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War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

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To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

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It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

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