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#disposition

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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


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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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Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?


Robert Walpole


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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.


Edward Gibbon


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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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You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.


William Cavendish


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And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.


Margaret Cavendish


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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


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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


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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.


Milan Kundera


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