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Edward Gibbon Quotes


An English historian and Member of Parliament.
Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 – January 16, 1794) 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 denigration of organized religion.

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I was never less alone than when by myself.

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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.

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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

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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.

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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.