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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound
Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.
When I was younger, I had a different disposition as far as how I wanted to live life.
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.
There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.
It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.
The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.
By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.
I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.
Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.
I'm quite a cantankerous soul. People have this impression that I have a happy disposition. But I'm dark and cynical underneath.
By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.
My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.
Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.
I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.
A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.
Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it;
So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.
a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.
The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
