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Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
– Elizabeth Gilbert

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  1. My early and invincible love of reading–I would not exchange for the treasures of India. – Edward Gibbon
  2. Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. – Edward Gibbon
  3. War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice. – Edward Gibbon
  4. Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon
  5. Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. – Edward Gibbon
  6. All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. – Edward Gibbon
  7. We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  8. With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life. – Jesse Holdeman
  9. Spend the beautiful days of your life to someone you want to spend with until your last breath. – Jonathan Page Acabo
  10. As days are numbered and life is short, why waste days feeling bad for yourself? – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
  11. And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence. – Elizabeth Gilbert
  12. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing. – Annie Dillard
  13. All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days… – Brenna Ehrlich
  14. There are good days and hard days for me. Don’t let the hard days win ~Mor ~A Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J Maas
  15. King John was not a good man,He had his little ways.And sometimes no one spoke to him,For days and days and days. – AA Milne
  16. Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon. – Joshua Edward Smith
  17. There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
  18. there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn’t endure, and the lovelier for that… Nothing endures. – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  19. In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album. – Daniel M Gilbert
  20. Those who are great know a secret that the remaining lot do not know. – Sunday Adelaja
  21. Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous. – Albert Einstein
  22. Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one. – Milan Kundera
  23. The part of something is missing and the remaining part is itself not able to explain what part is missing. – Neetesh Dixitxit
  24. Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process. – Girdhar Joshi
  25. You can’t reach your potential by remaining in a past due season. Your breakthrough is coming. Strongholds are breaking. Get Ready! – Germany Kent
  26. In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are. – Max DePree
  27. Peace is not the absence of chaos or conflict, but rather finding yourself in the midst of that chaos and remaining calm in your heart. – John Mroz
  28. In the end, we must remember that no one can become what they need to be by remaining where the are. Until there is motion nothing can change. – GE Paulus
  29. 90% problems of line can be solved by dropping them and remaining 10& can be solved by effort – Nitin Yaduvanshi
  30. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. – Booker T Washington
  31. You’ll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed. – Martha N Beck
  32. The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there. – Siri Hustvedt
  33. Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves. – Eugene H Peterson
  34. It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us. – Stephen Davey
  35. Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one. – AJP Taylor
  36. In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  37. Life is made up of Moments. Moments create Days, days create Months, months create Years, years create LIFE. Lose the Moment and you lose Life. – RVM
  38. What do I believe that I deserve in this life? – Elizabeth Gilbert
  39. So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. – Elizabeth Gilbert
  40. I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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