"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of…" — Edward Gibbon
"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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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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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
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I love cold, rainy weather.
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
— John Betjeman
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