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"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."
"Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor."
"The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while."
"By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution."
"Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth."
"I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications."
"In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die."
"All vigor is contagious."
"Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles."
"Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume."
"Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go."
"Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face."
"A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline."
"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."
