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

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

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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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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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History
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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. – Edward Gibbon

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Learning
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The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. – Proverb

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Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it. – Charles A. Garfield

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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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We are the meeting place, an entity thats trying to connect faith and culture. – William P. Leahy

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We must reject the idea that every time a laws broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. – Ronald Reagan

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. – Marcus Aurelius

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