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The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

Nicholas Culpeper (1666). “The English Physitian Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs that Were Not in Any Impression Untill This, Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.275

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

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

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

Edward Gibbon (1796). “Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself”, p.194

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

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”

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin

The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.

Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.230, Library of America