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Vigorous Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that…
- The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection…
- Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
- Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to…
- Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
- The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain
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