"War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual……" — Edward Gibbon
"War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice."
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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 Fairest Quotes
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest…
— Francis Beaumont
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into…
— Annie Besant
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.
— Thomas Paine
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The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of…
— Albert Einstein
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The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of…
— Hans Selye
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
— Heraclitus
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the…
— William Blake
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
— Hosea Ballou
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By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of…
— Charles Dance
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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
— Silius Italicus
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