Of all virtues Jane Austen valued "candour"; but candor, as we understand it, has no arena in which to exercise itself.
The compensating grace is that in much nonfictional literature that repudiates or ignores structure the reader is often delighted with an air of ease and of nonchalance and with that rarest of all virtues in the art of writing: naturalness.
The blow from the right, he said, has been a constant emphasis on the family as the "repository of all virtues" -- and, thus, the only institution worthy of trust and time.
That's what the antisemites have been saying for years, even when the Blackshirt leader Sir Oswald Mosley was spouting venom that makes Ken Livingstone look like a paragon of all virtues.
Without a compensatory virtues of independence of mind, and, beneath that, courage — which the ancients believed is the foundation of all virtues — is there any compassion at all? Tonight, I returned briefly to his 1990 autobiography, Freedom in Exile, in which the spiritual, the superstitious, the mythical, and the matter-of-fact are tossed in a uniquely Tibetan salad.
But for this poet, there was no shame in the worthless adornments, which indeed they wore as a badge of honor: They are the symbols of what was fitting for them to have, of what above all it was right for them to have at their crowning… Quiet acceptance and realism were, for this historical poet, the greatest of all virtues in political life — particularly in defeat.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
9. "Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Of all the virtues, surely stoicism, decency and forgiveness rate near the top — particularly in a culture of facile complaint, indecent vanity and vindictive piling-on.
Of all the virtues Beckham was alleged to embody, it was the family-man image that the English liked most of all.
Others (Penner, Woodruff) have argued for a stronger thesis, such that the definitions of all the virtues would have a common essence.
