#disposition

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.


Samuel Johnson


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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.


Milan Kundera


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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.


Claud-Adrian Helvetius


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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.


Samuel George Morton


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I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.


Martha Washington


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The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.


Paul Harris


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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.


Cesare Pavese


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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.


Wendell Phillips


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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.


Martha Washington


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One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.


L. Frank Baum


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