Edward Abbey Quotes About Virtue
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.
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Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.
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A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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Humility is a virtue when you have no other.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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