Edward Gibbon/later Years - 1789%e2%80%931794

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    “I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “Some have too much, yet still do crave;
    I little have, and seek no more.
    They are but poor, though much they have,
    And I am rich with little store.
    They poor, I rich; they beg, I give;
    They lack, I leave; they pine, I live.”
    —Sir Edward Dyer (c. 1540–1607)

    “Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)