I am willing, for a money consideration, to test this physical strength, this nervous force, and muscular power with which I've be...en gifted, to show that they will bear a certain strain. If I break down, if my brain gives way under want of sleep, my heart ceases to respond to the calls made on my circulatory system, or the surcharged veins of my extremities burst--if, in short, I fall helpless, or it may be, dead on the track, then I lose my money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife;... And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty; the enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with s...lavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece o...f bread down his throat, he would starve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and wor...ks that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light, motion, gravity, muscular force; and in the game of human life, love..., fear, justice, appetite, man, and God, interact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An emotion is a tendency to feel, and an instinct is a tendency to act, characteristically, when in the presence of a certain obje...ct in the environment. But the emotions also have their bodily "expression," which may involve strong muscular activity (as in fear or anger, for example); and it becomes a little hard in many cases to separate the description of the "emotional" condition from that of the "instinctive" reaction which one and the same object may provoke.... Every object that excites an instinct excites an emotion as well. The only distinction one may draw is that the reaction called emotional terminates in the subject's own body, whilst the reaction called instinctive is apt to go farther and enter into practical relations with the exciting object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »