Quote by Edward Gibbon
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. - Edward Gibbon

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. – Edward Gibbon

Other quotes by Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. – Edward Gibbon

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power
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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

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Government
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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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teacher
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The reward of ones duty is the power to fulfill another. – George Eliot

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Duty

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the hearts sanctuary. – Augusta Jane Evans

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. – John Fowles

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Dont be humble… youre not that great. – Golda Meir

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So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness. – Angela Merkel

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Time and space – time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. – Edwin Way Teale, Autumn Across America, 1956

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. – Germaine Greer

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