Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ...
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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Luke 21:34:
'Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.'
(NIV)
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
(KJV)
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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
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Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
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