#disposition

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

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#confused #dad #disposition #father #good-natured

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#god-like #good #human #human nature #nature

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#disposition #esteem #general #glory #happy

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#compose #disposition #diversity #extreme #far

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

#average #being #critical #disposition #else

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

#future #growing-up #growth #heritage #history

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#disposition #happiness #knowledge #light-disposition #art

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people. ↗

— William John Wills

#arts #confined #deep #differently #dispositions