Edward Abbey Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

  Edward Abbey

  Pride, Grace, Needs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

• Simplicity is always a virtue.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Simplicity, Virtue

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

• 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.

  Edward Abbey

  Joy, Survival, Doe

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

• Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

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  Useless, Virtue, Morose

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.113, University of Arizona Press

• Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

  Edward Abbey

  Humility, Virtue

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

• A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Virtue, Nevertheless

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

• We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

  Edward Abbey

  Essentials, Useless, World

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

• 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.

  Edward Abbey

  Distance, Kids, Work Out

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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