All Edward Gibbon Quotes
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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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
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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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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