#disposition

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. ↗

— William Shirley

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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

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It is not the position, but the disposition. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

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Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance. ↗

— Rene Cassin

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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