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  • Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every town in America.

    Pride   America   Dancing  
  • The student may read Homer or Æschylus 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.

    Morning   Hero   Greek  
  • At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

    Time   Doe   Energy  
  • Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

    Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.
  • 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.

  • Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

    Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.154, Shambhala Publications
  • 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

    Heart   Luxury   Vices  
    Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.341
  • An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

  • Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one of an infinite number of numbers: the law of revolution is not a social law, but an immeasurably greater one. It is a cosmic, universal law - like the laws of the conservation of energy and of the dissipation of energy (entropy).

    Inspirational   Art   Law  
    "A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin". 1970.
  • Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe

  • 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 (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.205, Penguin
  • Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

    Sports   Years   Use  
    William Wilberforce (1835). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country Contrasted with Real Christians”, p.159
  • Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

    Life   Oysters   Shapes  
    Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.333, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.7, B&H Publishing Group
  • Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is their life aught but dissipation? In common genteel life, indeed, you may now and then meet with very fine girls - who have politeness, sense and conversation - but these are few - and then look at your trademen's daughters - what are they? poor creatures indeed! all pertness, imitation and folly.

    Girl   Daughter   Husband  
    "The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney". Vol. 1, p. 47, journal entry, November 17, 1768.
  • 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.

    Past   Order   Law  
    Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.44, Vintage
  • The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

    Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics
  • Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

    William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.151
  • I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

    John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.116, Penguin
  • 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 (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.28, Book Tree
  • We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".

    Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
  • On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

    Spring   Crowds   April  
    "Memoirs". Book by Edward Gibbon, Vol. i. p. 116, 1796.
  • Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

  • To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.

    Running   Dream   Strong  
  • What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

    Dream   Artist   Despair  
    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.135, Wordsworth Editions
  • The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

    Work   Home   Differences  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353
  • 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.

    Wise   Sacrifice   Law  
    John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
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