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Edward Gibbon
English
April 27, 1737
Historian
Style is the image of character.
Edward Gibbon
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Character
Style
Image
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
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Human
Does
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Edward Gibbon
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General
Particular
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Edward Gibbon
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Always
Little
Almost
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon
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Must
Win
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
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History
More
Than
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
Edward Gibbon
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Power
Free
Lost
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Edward Gibbon
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Nature
Courage
Most
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Edward Gibbon
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Beauty
Been
Which
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
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End
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Thinking
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
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