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Letter "V" » vigor
«They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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application, ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, awareness, core, difficulties, inherent, inspiration, insufficient, misfortune, persistence, realized, species, The Core, vigor, worthwhile
«Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes»
Author: George Caleb Bingham
(Artist)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
disappointed, extol, extolled, extolling, praising, tide, vigor
«Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.»
«Keep up you conjugal love in constant heat and vigor»
«In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
composing, every other, General Idea, general rule, General will, pen, vigor, writing style
«Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.»
«Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching the power of young minds, personal commitment and responsibility - these are th»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Commitment
| Keywords:
curricula, curriculum, restoration, The Restoration, vigor
«Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.»
«Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.»
«Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.»
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