We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
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I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.Edward Gibbon
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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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Edward Gibbon
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Edward Gibbon
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
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