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" Style is the image of character. "
Edward Gibbon
Character
Style
Image
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" Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. "
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School
" The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. "
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Always
Little
" 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. "
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Us
End
Point
" The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. "
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Nature
Courage
Human Nature
" 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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Action
Pen
Practice
" 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. "
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Performance
Judge
Event
" My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. "
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Early
India
Love
" I was never less alone than when by myself. "
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Never
Than
Alone
" But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. "
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Almost
Where
Power
" I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. "
Edward Gibbon
I Am
Equal
Am
" Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. "
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Monarchy
Present
World
" Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. "
Edward Gibbon
Business
Presentation
Work
" We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. "
Edward Gibbon
Improve
Over
Victories
" Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. "
Edward Gibbon
Gratitude
Expensive
Revenge
" Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. "
Edward Gibbon
Poverty
Possessions
Freedom
" In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. "
Edward Gibbon
Mischief
He
Resolve
" Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. "
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Infallible
Most
Corruption
" Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. "
Edward Gibbon
Mirrors
Heroes
Mind
" The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. "
Edward Gibbon
True
Probability
General
" All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. "
Edward Gibbon
Does
Must
Retrograde
" The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. "
Edward Gibbon
Always
Winds
Waves
" My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. "
Edward Gibbon
Text
Left
Language
" Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. "
Edward Gibbon
Learning
Arts
Book
" Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. "
Edward Gibbon
Our
Best
Comfort
" Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. "
Edward Gibbon
Misery
Distant
Cold
" Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. "
Edward Gibbon
Humanity
Feelings
Fanaticism
" History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. "
Edward Gibbon
Register
More
History
" The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. "
Edward Gibbon
Free
Constitution
Power
" Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. "
Edward Gibbon
Gift
Those
Beauty
" 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. "
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Worship
World
People