62 ordspråk av Edward Gibbon

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Edward Gibbon föddes den 8 maj 1737 och dog den 16 januari 1794 - brittisk historiker.
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en I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
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en 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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en Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
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en The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
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en The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.
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en Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
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en Style is the image of character.
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en I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
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en The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian [read: journalist] He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.
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en Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.
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en I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
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en It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
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en It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without becoming soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.
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en The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators
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en Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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