"Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor……" — Edward Gibbon
"Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave."
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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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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
— Robert Browning
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The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.
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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure,…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."
— Corrie Ten Boom
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The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to…
— Steven Furtick
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Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.
— Charles Spurgeon
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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
— Al-Ghazali
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God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
— Charles Wesley
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place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children.…
— Confucius
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with…
— Alexander Pope
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He buries gold who hides the truth.
— Pythagoras
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