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«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»
Author: Terence
(Dramatist, Playwright)
| About:
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
disposition, inclination, of their own
«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.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| Keywords:
disposition, evaluation, furthermore, innate, objective, relation to, subjective
«It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquaint, acquainted, acquainted with, acquainting, acquaints, determine, disposition, insufficient, intimacies, intimacy, seven, sevens, Seven Days, Seven Years
«In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
disposition, speaker, Speaker of, state of mind, The State
«LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
disposition, forbearance, injury, maturing, meek, meekest, revenge
«Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.»
«Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Civil rights,
Justice,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Men,
Morality
| Keywords:
appetites, civil liberties, civil liberty, disposition, liberties, qualified, rapacity
«Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition»
Author: French Proverb
| About:
Adversity,
Medicine,
Misfortune,
Morality
| Keywords:
act as, ameliorates, ameliorating, bitters, chasten, chastened, chastening, chastens, disagreeable, disposition, misfortunes, stomach
«It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
coal, complained, disposition, find fault, prehistoric, toads
«My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
abolition, disposition, improving, lessen, lessened, lessening, lessens, morals, practicable, views
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