Famous quotes containing the words continuous, power and/or dissipation:
“The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people’s minds.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“You mean about success,
And how by its own logic it concentrates
All wealth and power in too few hands?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)