As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition? — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would… — Nathaniel Smith Copy Share Image
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament… — Louis of Granada Copy Share Image
In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust. — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image