#disposition

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. ↗

— Plato

#burden #calm #disposition #equally #feel

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death. ↗

— George Eads

#always #been #criminality #day #dealing

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. ↗

— George Santayana

#beyond #disposition #him #kindly #man

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

#disposition #england #find #friends #i

It is not the position, but the disposition. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#position

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#benevolence #confidence #disposition #justice #mere

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

#dispositions #get #inside #less #motives

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#better #brute #celestial #civil #creatures

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful. ↗

— Cole Younger

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