"Overworking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nervous energy is depressed by any bodily cause, or exhausted by overworking, there follow effects which have often been misinterpreted by moralists, and especially by theologians. The conscience itself becomes neuralgic, sometimes actually inflamed, so that the least touch is agony. Of all liars and false accusers, a sick ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various
... you what. You've been overworking yourself. I once got like that on board the Sandhurst, working for the passing-out exam. I got so bad that I ...
— Plays of Near & Far • Lord Dunsany
... travel, but her father could not get away. He consistently spent his days in overworking, and his evenings in wishing he hadn't overworked. He was attractive, fresh, pink-cheeked, white-mustached, and ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis |
