"Overstrain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... repeating the suave tones of Doctor Florret, echoing as ever the solemn croak of Correctness, "are useful as mental gymnastics." My dear Doctor Florret and Co., cannot you, out of the vast storehouse of really necessary knowledge, select apparatus better fitted to strengthen and not overstrain the mental muscles of ten-to-fourteen? You, gentle reader, with brain fully grown, trained by years of practice to its subtlest uses, take me from your bookshelf, say, your Browning or even your Shakespeare. Come, you ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... than a baby. After the overstrain of the day had come a fit of utter nervous depression. A lump rose in my throat, ...
— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit
... respectable element in the country; and secondly, that the period of lassitude which follows great efforts, whether of men or nations, is not altogether the condemnation of the effort, but partly the weakness of humanity. Nations as well as men, if they aim high, must sometimes overstrain themselves, and weariness must ensue. Nor did the Commonwealth of England come to nothing, though in a society not half emancipated from feudalism it was premature, and therefore, at the time, a failure. It opened a glimpse of a new order of ...
— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith
... breaks down owing to overstrain, and for five days is in a state of delirium. His farther, who happens to be in the neighbourhood on business, comes to see his son, and finding him in this precarious state, watches over him day ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... school is said to be alarmingly prevalent. "It is generally recognized by physicians and educators to-day that many children in the schools are being seriously injured through nervous overstrain. Throughout the world there is a developing conviction that one of the most important duties of society is to determine how education may be carried on without depriving children of their health. It is probable that we are not requiring ...
— The New Education - A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) • Scott Nearing |
