Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944 Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990) Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
I understand the stars,and the signs of the Zodiac, and the tracks of the winds, thesand of the sea, the healing of illness, and the virtues of all herbs,birds, and stones.
She grows in all the virtues and graces of a woman.
We all have many defects, but then we also have virtues.
The heart conceals within itself the vices as well as the virtues, and they grow in the shallowest ground.
It is the fallacy of the time, and many poets express it, to say that all that is noble is bad and stupid, and that, on the contrary, the lower one goes among the poor, the more brilliant virtues one finds.
