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Active Quotes by Edward Gibbon
- 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;…
- Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.
- The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession…
- To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.
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