#disposition

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

#capture #considerate #cordially #disposition #feel

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

#anxious #desire #disposition #equally #harm

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. ↗

— Jane Austen

#intimacy #marianne-dashwood #openness #opportunity #self-disclosure

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

— Oswald Chambers

#christ #disposition #jesus #jesus christ #manifested

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#does #majority #matter #mend #nor

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#differently #disposition #feel #happens #i

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. ↗

— Jean Racine

#hearts #i #inclination #know #own

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#blood #disposition #filtered #forever #moods

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

— Thomas Aquinas

#disposition #mind #passion #simply #temperance