"The best people possess a feeling for..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
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More on Virtue
“That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.”
“It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.”
“Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.”
More on Qualities
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”
“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.”
“Courage--judgment--integrity--dedication--these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State....And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this son of Massachusetts hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four stormy years that lie ahead.”