Let us then look forward to the future with that salutary fear which makes men keep watch and ward for freedom, not with that faint and idle terror which depresses and enervates the heart.
While religion was the topic of discussion, the morals of the people were reformed.
France at home and abroad, he was justified in asserting that the state was identified with his person.
But I am of opinion that a central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit.
It enervatesthe powers of the mind, and benumbs the activity of man.
Enervates whatever is manly in body or mind--Corpus virilemque animum effaeminat.
It is a vice which, as if imbued with deadly poison, enervates whatever is manly in body or mind.
It is very common to hear of the evils of pernicious reading, of how it enervates the mind, or how it depraves the principles.
It is very common to hear of the evils of pernicious reading, how it enervates the mind, or how it depraves the principles.
By separating duty from interest which ruins it, and from sentiment which enervates it, Kant restored to ethics their true character.
Sloth benumbs and enervates the mind; regular work excites and strengthens it, and work is always in our power.
Despise luxury of diet and dress, and every thing which enervates the body: make them sensible how much honour, a good conscience, and religion, are above these sensual pleasures.
A feather bed enervates his body, and, if he be so predisposed, causes rickets, and makes him crooked.
But, while rejecting epigrammatic fireworks, I am bound to say that the habit of reading has become harmful in many cases; it is a sort of intellectual dram-drinking, and it enervates the mind as alcohol enervates the body.
This aphorism is certainly not without exception, and we may add that excess of labor and of endurance enervates the organization as much as the excess of luxury and idleness.
A fruitful soil enervates men, when less fertile, it renders them temperate and industrious.
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