Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day c...atch you unexpectedly, like a trap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish you would not let him plunge into a ôvortex of Dissipation.ö I do not object to the Thing, but I cannot bear the .../>expression; it is such thorough novel slang--and so old, that I dare say Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 progressi...vely 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There, burying each gloomy thought, each sad reflection in the hearse of dissipation, [we] lost the remembrance of our woes, our c...ruel misfortunes, our agonising sorrows--and graciously permitted them to glide along the stream of reviving comfort, blown by the gentle gale of new born hopes till they reposed in the bosom of oblivion--then--no! 'tis impossible! this style is too great, too sublime to be supported with proper dignity--the sublime and beautiful how charmingly blended!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look at your [English] ladies of quality--are they not forever parting with their husbands--forfeiting their reputations--and is t...heir 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dining-out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends..., belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are co...arse 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »