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• Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every living creature; and this being singly attended to, people become tender-hearted and sympathizing; but when frequently and totally rejected, the mind becomes shut up in a contrary disposition.

  John Woolman

  Exercise, People, Mind

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.3

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• [T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

  John Dewey

  School, Skills, Competition

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• More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

  Alfred Adler

  Reality, Objectivity, Important

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• The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Learning, School, Important

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• Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Thinking, Next Steps, Should

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• A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Gold, Fortune, Latter

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• The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

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• An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Action

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• Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her body?

  Ayn Rand

  Abortion, Wish, Matter

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.64, Penguin

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• To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Past, Age, Complaining

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 4

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• There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much need for sunshine in our heart as for sunshine in the world. Today, as perhaps never before, mankind needs encouragement and cheer.

  David O. McKay

  Encouragement, Cheer, Attitude

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• The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at every moment, we must keep unchanged in our heart the feeling, conviction and disposition, that on no occasion can we allow ourselves to think of relying on ourselves and trusting ourselves.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Heart, Thinking

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• Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only the disposition of the heart belongs to the man. This is why many charities prove almost worthless, for they were bestowed unwillingly, grudgingly, without respect for the person of our neighbor. So also the hospitality of many persons proves worthless because of their hypocritical vain-glorious behavior to their guests. Let us offer our sacrifices upon the altar of love to our neighbor, with heart-felt affection: 'for God loves a cheerful giver'

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

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• The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

  Irving Kristol

  Optimistic, Cheerful, Doe

  Wall Street Journal, November 18, 1985.

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• What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

  Saint Peter

  Beauty, What Matters, Delight

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• To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

  Jane Austen

  Real, Men, Mind

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.193, MobileReference

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• Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and desires, but has to develop first a marked attitude of compassion. He should commit himself firmly to the willingness to take the effort to save every living creature.

  Sun Simiao

  Attitude, Compassion, Giving

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• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

  Seneca the Younger

  Acquisition, Riches, Faults

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• Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

  Thomas Browne

  Age, Habit, Rectify

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4”, p.61

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• Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Rivalry, Produce

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

  Sidney Lanier

  Style, Faults, Metaphor

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• Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Giving, Warning

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• Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brother, Dissent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Prejudice, Reason, Mildness

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.294, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

  Agatha Christie

  Girl, Men, Missing

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Thirteen at Dinner”, Berkley

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