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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. - Robert Browning


It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. - Benjamin Disraeli


I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of 'The Look.' - Lauren Bacall


He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. - Robert Burton


Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. - Virginia Woolf


Archimedes once said, 'Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.' Today he would have pointed to our electric media and said, 'I will stand on your eyes, your ears, your nerves, and your brain, and the world will move in any tempo or pattern I choose.' We have leased these 'places to stand' to private corporations. - Marshall McLuhan


After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. - Emily Dickinson


You say that love is nonsense, I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. - Henry Brooks Adams


Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. - Edmund Burke

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