Exercise Held

Famous quotes containing the words exercise and/or held:

    ... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.—For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...
    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    There was silence deep as death;
    And the boldest held his breath
    For a time.
    Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)