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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.
Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting.
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
On the whole, my disposition is to say yes, unless I've got good reason to say no, and I think that's being in public life.
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
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.
Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
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.
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.
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.
As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.
If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
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.
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.
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.
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!