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Vigor Quotes - Page 4

All vigor is contagious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.184

So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor, it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

"Naoto Kan: 'Japan has lost its vigor'". www.cnn.com. November 17, 2010.

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.

Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.29

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.107, Tara Publishing

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.23, Harper Collins

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.331, Pan Macmillan