Vigor Quotes - Page 11

• By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Add, Done, May

  Samuel Johnson (1799). “THE IDLER. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, L.L.D. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. WITH ADDITIONAL ESSAYS. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings OF THE AUTHOR”

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• Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense;Press to close with vigor, once begun,And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done.

  Joseph Story

  Hands, Order, Matter

  Joseph Story (1851). “Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Edited by his son William W. Story. (Mit 1 Porträt.)”, p.88

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• Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

  Samuel Johnson

  Reason, Efficacy, Trifles

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• Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Struggle, Adversity

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• Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

  Joseph Addison

  Play, Giving, Force

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.158

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• The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.

  Walter Millis

  Strong, War, Character

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• Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Fire, Clothes

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Men, Doubt

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

  Plutarch

  Nice, Fall, Maturity

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• Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway
  The mind of man, must always make her way;
  Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,
  Is all her malice worth a single thought.
  The wise have not the will, nor fools the power,
  To stop her headstrong course; within the hour
  Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife
  Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.

  Charles Churchill

  Wise, Men, Giving

  Charles Churchill, “The Author”

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• The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.

  Edmund Burke

  Art, Men, Mind

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• We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Tree, Sap, Use

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