"Amiable weaknesses of human nature." — Edward Gibbon
"Amiable weaknesses of human nature."
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Edward Gibbon
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95 Quotes by Edward Gibbon
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory,…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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More Amiable Quotes
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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give…
— Jane Austen
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
— Samuel Butler
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
— Lord Byron
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more…
— Joseph Addison
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She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but…
— William Shakespeare
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to…
— John Desmond Bernal
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
— Seneca the Elder
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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one…
— Albert Einstein
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I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and…
— Queen Victoria
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If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such…
— H. L. Mencken
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