#disposition

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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People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent. ↗

— Hugo Hamilton

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. ↗

— John Adams

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

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