#dissipation

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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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. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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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. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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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. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

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Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. ↗

— Frances Burney

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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. ↗

— Margaret Deland

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But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. ↗

— Rebecca West

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