Vigorous Quotes
209 quotes by 176 authors
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock…
— William James
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Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
— Aristotle
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One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
— Randolph Bourne
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking
— Samuel Johnson
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The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
— Mortimer Collins
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I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous…
— Harrison Ford
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I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is…
— Dave Reichert
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are…
— Charles Spurgeon
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies…
— Denis Diderot
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Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
— John Owen
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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet,…
— John Owen
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Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something…
— Eric Temple Bell
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There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste…
— William J. Clinton
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind.…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is…
— G. Stanley Hall
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