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| Edward Gibbon
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. I was never less alone than when by myself. 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. My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. 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. The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. |
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