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• To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.

  Confucius

  Practice, Vitality, Shame

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• The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Aim, Civilized Society, Civilised Society

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• The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

  Colin Powell

  Business, Health, Destiny

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• A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Spring, Literature, Orthodox

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loss, Prejudice, Sometimes

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• Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Fire, Years

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 8

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• A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Soul, Ardor

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• His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

  Isaac Newton

  Sea, Mind, Divinity

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• If you understand others you are smart.
  If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
  If you overcome others you are powerful.
  If you overcome yourself you have strength.
  If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
  If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
  If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
  If you die without loss, you are eternal.

  Laozi

  Powerful, Smart, Loss

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• You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true eye?' I could not understand this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain, I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs, branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend to the wind with tremendous vigor.

  Katsuki Sekida

  Eye, Hands, Wind

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• A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.

  Ezra Pound

  New York, Animal, Rome

  "Patria Mia".

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• There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Hatred, Humanity, Decay

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.474, Delphi Classics

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• Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Mind, Looks

  "Complete Works".

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• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

  Edgard Varese

  Mean, Science, Expression

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.

  J. Christopher Herold

  War, Effort, Enemy

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• The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, Color, Ideas

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• Stated in the simplest terms, the recognized solution to the problem of foodborne illness is a comprehensive prevention strategy that involves all participants in the food system, domestic and foreign, doing their part to minimize the likelihood of harmful contamination. And that is the strategy mandated by FSMA. It is not a strategy that assumes we can achieve a zero-risk food supply, but it is a strategy grounded in the conviction that we can better protect consumers and the economic vigor of the food system if everyone involved implements reasonably available measures to reduce risk.

  Michael R. Taylor

  Zero, Safety, Risk

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• Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

  Walter Scott

  Differences, Long, Storm

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• As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

  James S. Coleman

  Sports, School, Years

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• The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.

  Alexis Carrel

  Prayer, Reality, Understanding

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• How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is - it can only be - the vigor of his protest against it.

  Andre Breton

  Men, People, Trying

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• Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to allow ourselves be overtaken by laziness or despondency, especially when faced with the hardships and trials of life. In these cases, do not lose heart, but invoke the Holy Spirit, so that with the gift of fortitude He can lift our hearts and communicate new vigor and enthusiasm to our lives and our following Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, May

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• We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Nature, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.205, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Blessed, People, Grace

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.

  Stephen A. Diamond

  Integrity, Acceptance, Blessing

  Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.233, SUNY Press

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