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"Enervation" Quotes from Famous Books

... Parliament," which says (p. 211) "The practicable difference in the distribution of sickness seems to turn upon the amount of the expenditure of physical force. This is no new thing, for in all ages the enervation and decrepitude of the bodily frame has been observed to follow a prodigal waste of the mental or corporeal energies. But it has been nowhere previously established upon recorded experience that the quantum of sickness annually falling to the lot of man is in a direct proportion to the demands upon ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 - Volume 1, Number 8 • Various

... the healthiest experience of the soul. It is rather something against which we must fight relentlessly. Very often the longing for wings results only in lagging footsteps. Picturing to ourselves the luxury of laying life down will not help us to face the duty of taking life up. The secret of enervation is found not in the poverty of our resources, but in the cowardliness and selfishness of our attitude towards life. The battle is half won when we have looked the enemy in the face. The burden is the better borne as we stoop under the ...

— The Threshold Grace • Percy C. Ainsworth

... of the Italian airs overcame me with a delicious enervation. Every note, every interval, each shade of expression spoke to me—I knew not what: and yet they spoke to my heart of hearts. A spirit out of the infinite heaven seemed calling to my spirit, which longed to answer—and was dumb—and could ...

— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

Words linked to "Enervation" : weakening, cutting out, weakness, excision, ablation, extirpation, enervate