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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy

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

- Edward Gibbon | Ability and Achievement Quotes

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

- Edward Gibbon | Christians and Christianity Quotes

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

- Edward Gibbon | Progress Quotes

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.

- Edward Gibbon | Religion Quotes

I was never less alone than when by myself.,

- Edward Gibbon | Solitude Quotes

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

- Edward Gibbon | Self-Reliance Quotes

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

- Edward Gibbon | Ignorance Quotes

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

- Edward Gibbon | Events Quotes

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

- Edward Gibbon | Conversation Quotes

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

- Edward Gibbon | History Quotes

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

- Edward Gibbon | Navigation Quotes

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

- Edward Gibbon | Reading Quotes