Nerves and the Man: A Popular Psychological and Constructive Study of Nervous BreakdownJ. Murray, 1920 - 223 pages |
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Nerves and the Man; A Popular Psychological and Constructive Study of ... William Charles Loosmore No preview available - 2018 |
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attention become blood body brain breathing calm cause CHAPTER cheerful commonly concentration conscious dealing depression emotions endless wires especially excitement exercise experience expression fatigue fear feeling forms of rest G. K. Chesterton give habit heart highly strung hope Horace Fletcher important infrequently interest irritability keep kind lack laugh laughter less lives look Mastica means mental control mind mind-wandering moods moral movements muscles Nature necessary nerve cells nerve forces nerve trouble nervous breakdown nervous disorder nervous energy nervous exhaustion nervous strain nervous system nervous wreck neurasthenia night one's oneself ourselves pain poise possible quiet realise relaxation repose rest interval result Robert Louis Stevenson self-suggestion sense serious sleep Song of Hiawatha speaking spirit subconscious suffering from nervous temperament tendency things thought tion victim to nerves weaknesses whilst will-power worry writer has found
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Page 174 - Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Page 131 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 142 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Page 64 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 155 - It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul Goodbye my darling, darling boy.
Page 42 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 208 - The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Page 218 - We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.
Page 114 - AND is this all ? Can Reason do no more Than bid me shun the deep, and dread the shore ? Sweet moralist ! afloat on life's rough sea, The Christian has an art unknown to thee : He holds no parley with unmanly fears ; Where Duty bids he confidently steers, Faces a thousand dangers at her call, And, trusting in his God, surmounts them all.
Page 144 - O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!