| The theologian 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. 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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- Edward Gibbon |
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| All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. |
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- Edward Gibbon |
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| 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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- Edward Gibbon |
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| As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. |
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- Edward Gibbon |
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| The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. |
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- Edward Gibbon |
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| The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede. |
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- Edward Gibbon |
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