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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.… — Henry David Thoreau
- You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose. — Walter Russell
- Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse… — Cyril Connolly
- Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production. — Edward Bellamy
- Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland
- The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to… — Thomas Jefferson
- The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation — Fanny Burney
- Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially… — Meher Baba
- They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a… — Katherine Anne Porter
- To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened… — Sven Birkerts
- You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise… — Adrian Rogers
- Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our… — Daniel Pinchbeck