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#dissipation

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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


#breakdown #dissipation #hard #hard work #hours

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


Charles Evans Hughes


#dissipation #men #overwork #worry

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


Frances Burney


#easily #mind #naturally #pleasure #prone

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


Margaret Deland


#common sense #denies #dissipation #self-sacrifice #sense

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


Rebecca West


#example #features #for example #other #tears

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


J.R.R. Tolkien


#dissipation #old-age #age

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


#did #dissipation #face #gave #give

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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