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From Quotes by Edward Gibbon
- Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of…
- If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most…
- Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.
- One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most…
- 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…
- 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.
- In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When…
- The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is…
- On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
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