“There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.” MindHeartKindFeelingsSpiritLyingDiesDown AndLongingBitterSicknessAnguishHeart And MindRemorseFatigueWearinessProstration Book:Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel Source: Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel
“If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.” IfsMindWellsBodyLyingPleasureStudyIntellectSicknessWornSheerSoarAmusementCouchesSlumberIndolenceVacancy Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper
“Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.” WayTryingWellsLyingSufferingNextWishWaitingCuttingWeaknessIllnessSicknessPerpetualDisgustingWoeTireDiscouragingSnaresGet WellManifoldArdorRespiteFaltering Book:Hadrian's Memoirs Source: Hadrian's Memoirs