"The mind is but too naturally prone to……" — Fanny Burney
"The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation"
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Fanny Burney
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27 Quotes by Fanny Burney
Fanny Burney has 27 quotes on this site.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
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I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A…
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We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they…
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There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to…
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be…
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
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To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion…
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Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about…
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More Dissipation Quotes
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Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is…
— Henry David Thoreau
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You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of…
— Walter Russell
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Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too…
— Cyril Connolly
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Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of…
— Edward Bellamy
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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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The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for…
— Meher Baba
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to…
— Sven Birkerts
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You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as…
— Adrian Rogers
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Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual…
— Lord Kelvin
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