"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
― Edward Gibbon
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Beauty
― Edward Gibbon
More From Edward Gibbon
- "Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
- "The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
- "I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
More In Beauty
- "Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I’d left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice – ‘Hey, man, I’m Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?’ The guard waved me through."― Nancy Cartwright
- "The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum."― Alexis Carrel
- "Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity."― Jonathan Sacks