30 Famous Quotes by Edward Gibbon
4/27/1737 - 1/16/1794
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Gibbon, Edward
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About Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest
navigators.
Navigation
Quotes, by Edward Gibbon , Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. LXVIII)
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My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not
exchange for the treasures of India.
Reading
Quotes, by Edward Gibbon , Source: Memoirs
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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the
proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a
common grave.
Fortune
Quotes, by Edward Gibbon , Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. LXXI)
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The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and
dissipation without pleasure.
Society
Quotes, by Edward Gibbon , Source: Memoirs (vol. I, p. 116)
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The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of
furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little
more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.
History
Quotes, by Edward Gibbon , Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. III), (1776)
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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.
Infatuation
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,
unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.
Inspirational
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...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
Politics / government
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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.
All about love
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