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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
- Edward Gibbon
#Friendship
#Happiness
#Her
#Passion
#Sex
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
- Edward Gibbon
#Expensive
#Gratitude
#Revenge
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
- Edward Gibbon
#Courage
#Human Nature
#Nature
#Quality
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
- Edward Gibbon
#Constitution
#Free
#Lost
#Power
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
- Edward Gibbon
#Advance
#Does
#Human
#Must
#Retrograde
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
- Edward Gibbon
#Choice
#Exercise
#Fruit
#Mind
#Style
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
- Edward Gibbon
#Cold
#Distant
#Misery
#Our
#Sympathy
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
- Edward Gibbon
#Corruption
#Infallible
#Liberty
#Most
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon
#History
#Little
#Mankind
#More
#Register
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
- Edward Gibbon
#General
#Laws
#Probability
#True
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
- Edward Gibbon
#Fanaticism
#Feelings
#Humanity
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
- Edward Gibbon
#Government
#Monarchy
#Present
#World
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
- Edward Gibbon
#Contest
#Improve
#Must
#Over
#Win
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
- Edward Gibbon
#Almost
#Happy
#Power
#Seldom
#Those
#Where
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
- Edward Gibbon
#Genius
#School
#Solitude
#Understanding
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
- Edward Gibbon
#Beginning
#Genuine
#Loneliness
#Thinking
I was never less alone than when by myself.
- Edward Gibbon
#Alone
#Less
#Myself
#Never
#Than
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
- Edward Gibbon
#Important
#Man
#More
#Teacher
#Two
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
- Edward Gibbon
#Arguing
#Mistake
#Never
#People
#Respect
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon
#History
#Little
#Mankind
#More
#Register
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
- Edward Gibbon
#Business
#Our
#Presentation
#Work
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- Edward Gibbon
#Always
#Brainy
#Side
#Waves
#Winds
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