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Edward Gibbon Quotes

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant Picture Quote #1

In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of enthusiasts, who sing hallelujahs above the clouds; and the vanity of authors, who presume the immortality of their name and writings Picture Quote #1

The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent Picture Quote #1

The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body Picture Quote #1

In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute Picture Quote #1

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave Picture Quote #1

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It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life Picture Quote #1

The generality of princes, if they were stripped of their purple and cast naked on the world, would immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without a hope of emerging from their obscurity Picture Quote #1

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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant (Edward Gibbon Quotes) In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of enthusiasts, who sing hallelujahs above the clouds; and the vanity of authors, who presume the immortality of their name and writings (Edward Gibbon Quotes) The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent (Edward Gibbon Quotes) The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body (Edward Gibbon Quotes) In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute (Edward Gibbon Quotes) Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave (Edward Gibbon Quotes) It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life (Edward Gibbon Quotes) The generality of princes, if they were stripped of their purple and cast naked on the world, would immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without a hope of emerging from their obscurity (Edward Gibbon Quotes)

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