Disposition Quotes
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If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.
Jane Austen -
. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
Thomas More
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Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?
Robert Walpole -
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
Joseph Lancaster -
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
Dante Alighieri -
Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.
Charles Seymour Robinson -
I texted Nightingale to let him know our change in disposition and then I picked up my Pliny, because nothing says stuck all alone in your flat like a Roman know-it-all.
Ben Aaronovitch -
Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.
Mortimer Zuckerman
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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind...
Jane Austen -
An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.
Seneca the Younger -
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
Blaise Pascal -
The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.
Elliot W. Eisner -
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
Bernard Bailyn -
The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board.
Efim Geller
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That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.
Paul Schrader -
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
George Eliot -
The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson -
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese -
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
Norm MacDonald -
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
Elizabeth Goudge