#stimulants

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#ballast #enthusiasms #like #mental #often

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#beauty #capable #dignity #does #excitement

It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#being #career #dark #dark side #down

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#better #brain #cannot #did #had