"Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure,……" — Mark Twain

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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
• You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of… — Walter Russell
• Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too… — Cyril Connolly
• Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of… — 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… — 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… — Meher Baba
• They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality… — Katherine Anne Porter
• To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to… — Sven Birkerts
• You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as… — Adrian Rogers
• 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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