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Edward Gibbon Quotes

«The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.»
«Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.»
«The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.»
«History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | About: History | Keywords: follies, register, The Register
«The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was con»
«But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous»
«In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind»
«Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: relation, sympathy
«I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: obeyed, sighed
«The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.»

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