#dispose

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Man proposes, but God disposes. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. ↗

— Patrick Henry

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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. ↗

— Robert Greene

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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again. ↗

— S. J. Perelman

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. ↗

— Jane Austen

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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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