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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
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.
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.
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.