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Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ... -- Eliza Haywood
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. -- John Arbuthnot
I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. -- Gavin Bryars
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence. -- Ferdinand Mount
We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. -- George Boole
The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered. -- Joseph Jacobs
It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago. -- Gordon Ramsay
In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism. -- Joseph Jacobs
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise. -- William Banting
Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted. -- Cesare Beccaria
We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour. -- Sigmar Gabriel
I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. -- Damien Hirst
There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually attached to younger people and men, and that's just the way it is. I think that it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's a fact that there aren't going to be masses and masses of roles for older women because there isn't the audience for it. -- Joanna Lumley
The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won. -- Alexander Pope
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best. -- Alexander Pope
The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism. -- George Orwell
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. -- Edmund Burke
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour. -- Sallust
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. -- Ovid
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. -- Paul Gauguin
We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion. -- Swami Vivekananda
My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from. -- Nancy Astor
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh. -- John Owen
Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. -- William Shakespeare
The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design. -- John Ruskin
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed. -- Tennessee Celeste Claflin
We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour. -- Peter Damian
From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power. -- Marquis de Sade
From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour. -- Julia Margaret Cameron
He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! -- Emily Bronte
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. -- Swami Vivekananda
Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour! -- Pope Francis
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions. -- Washington Irving
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley -- Jane Austen
In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal. -- John Calvin
But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit. -- Samuel Johnson
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities. -- Walter Gropius
If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God. -- Fulton J. Sheen

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