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But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. Rebecca West PICTURE QUOTES . PICTUREOU'TES
But there are other
things than dissipation
that thicken the features.
Tears, for example.
Rebecca West
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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. Votes: 4

Eric Hoffer
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Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry. Votes: 2

Charles Evans Hughes
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. Votes: 2

Margaret Deland
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But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. Votes: 2

Rebecca West
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. Votes: 2

Frances Burney
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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. Votes: 2

Charles Evans Hughes
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The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. Votes: 2

Herbert Spencer
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. Votes: 2

Katherine Anne Porter
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Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination. Votes: 2

John Marshall
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With great power comes great dissipation. Votes: 0

Timothy Poston
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At what time does the dissipation of energy begin? Votes: 0

Lord Kelvin
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation Votes: 0

Fanny Burney
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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. Votes: 0

Mark Twain
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I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation. Votes: 0

John Green
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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. Votes: 0

Confucius
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What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair? Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats
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Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ... Votes: 0

M. F. K. Fisher
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How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. Votes: 0

Evelyn Waugh
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Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production. Votes: 0

Edward Bellamy
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You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose. Votes: 0

Walter Russell
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On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon
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The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness. Votes: 0

Patanjali
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I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare
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To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position [in life]. Votes: 0

Sven Birkerts
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Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life. Votes: 0

Meher Baba
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Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau
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You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will. Votes: 0

Adrian Rogers
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Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices Votes: 0

Hannah More
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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation. Votes: 0

Alan Lightman
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The student may read Homer or Ãâ" schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

Henry David Thoreau
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Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure.

David Hume
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The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.

Thomas Jefferson
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Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.

Daniel Pinchbeck
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Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

Mark Twain
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If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.

John Lancaster Spalding
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