Edward Gibbon Quotes
Men go shopping to buy what they need. Women go shopping to find out what they want - Funny Quotes
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken - Oscar Wilde Quotes
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results - Albert Einstein Quotes
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars - Motivational Quotes
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary - Work Quotes
When I first saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew - William Shakespeare Quotes
Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is - Funny Quotes
If cats could talk, they wouldn't - Cat Quotes
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Text Quotes
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The first of earthly blessings, independence (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
A false modesty is the meanest species of pride (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
I was never less alone than when by myself (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Style is the image of character (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The history of empires is the history of human misery (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
I saw and loved (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little circumstances (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the Earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation (Edward Gibbon Quotes)
The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed that enjoyment the most pleasing to their ear. They deserved, they assumed, they maintained the honourable epithet of Franks or Freemen; which concealed, though it did not extinguish, the peculiar names of the several states of the confederacy (Edward Gibbon Quotes)