#disposition

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. ↗

— William Shirley

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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

— Oswald Chambers

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

— Samuel Richardson

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Milan Kundera

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