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Dispositions Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so…
- Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,…
- Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
- He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it…
- [F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
- The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social dispositions.
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- A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as… — John Adams
- A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those… — Margaret Cavendish
- There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men. — Sun Tzu
- Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who… — Unknown Author
- Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington
- I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain
- Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of… — Karl Popper
- In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them. — Sun Tzu
- Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions. — Sun Tzu
- These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify… — George Eliot
- Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by… — Anne Catherine Emmerich