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“History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his…” quote by Edward Gibbon — Download Open image

“History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.”

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That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

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The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

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[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

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Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each…

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Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates…

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It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was…

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If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:…

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But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

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[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

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The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring…

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It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all…

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Always keep the smile, because the smile is the beginning of love.

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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

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