#disposition

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

— Martha Washington

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A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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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

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

— John Raleigh Mott

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We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all. ↗

— Mike Patton

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

— William Arthur Ward

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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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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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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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