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Edward Gibbon
English
Historian
Born:
Apr 27
,
1737
Died:
Jan 16
,
1794
Language
Little
Our
Thinking
Work
World
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon
Work
Our
Capabilities
Presentation
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon
Respect
Mistake
People
No Respect
Arguing
Never
Make
Opinions
Whose
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
Conversation
Solitude
Genius
School
Understanding
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Edward Gibbon
Loneliness
Beginning
Thinking
Final
Ourselves
Longer
Talk
Genuine
End
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
Edward Gibbon
Freedom
Poverty
Our
Despotism
Possessions
Secured
Strongest
Since
Desires
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Edward Gibbon
Humanity
Feelings
Fanaticism
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon
Win
Ourselves
Must
Over
Contest
Improve
Victories
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Edward Gibbon
Government
World
Prevailed
Seems
Various
Fairest
Scope
Which
Forms
Ridicule
Monarchy
Present
Hereditary
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.
Edward Gibbon
Teacher
Man
First
Important
Every
Above
Rises
More
Himself
His
Educations
Personal
Common
Teachers
Who
Level
Received
Second
Every Man
Two
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
Book
Thinking
Resolved
Composition
Habits
Write
Unskilled
Arts
Original
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Edward Gibbon
Love
Reading
Would
India
Exchange
Invincible
Riches
Early
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.
Edward Gibbon
Best
Judge
Own
Performance
Sincerely
Himself
None
His
Subject
Author
Interested
Event
Deeply
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon
Alone
Myself
Never
Than
Less
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Edward Gibbon
Nature
Quality
Courage
Human Nature
Soldier
Cheapest
Most
Human
Common
Found
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon
Cold
Sympathy
Relation
Our
Distant
Misery
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon
General
Laws
True
Particular
Probability
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Edward Gibbon
Gift
Beauty
Despised
Those
Has-Been
Except
Seldom
Outward
Been
Refused
Which
Whom
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
History
Crimes
Indeed
Follies
More
Misfortunes
Than
Little
Register
Mankind
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.
Edward Gibbon
Work
Memory
Try
Long
Practice
Single
Action
Pen
Paragraph
Given
Cast
Had
Polish
Always
Till
Been
Mould
Suspend
Deposit
Ear
Last
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon
Heart
Every
Resolve
Mischief
Had
He
Head
Execute
Hand
Contrive
Deed
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Edward Gibbon
Corruption
Liberty
Symptom
Constitutional
Most
Infallible
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
Must
Advance
Retrograde
Does
Human
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
Happiness
Friendship
Passion
Sex
Rest
Single
Our
Sole
Possession
Seeks
Tenderness
Supreme
Female
Understand
Inflamed
Being
Which
Union
Her
Desire
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
Edward Gibbon
Fruit
Language
Mind
Style
Exercise
Command
His
Author
Choice
Should
Image
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
Edward Gibbon
Language
Chaste
Obscurity
Learned
Passages
Text
Left
Decent
English
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