Quotes About Disposition

Human beings have likes and dislikes; hence, the people can be ruled. The ruler must investigate likes and dislikes. Likes and dislikes are the root of rewards and penalties. The disposition of the people is to like ranks and emoluments and to dislike punishments and penalties. The ruler sets up the two in order to guide the people's will and to establish whatever he desires.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.

It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.

the master of this person of an excellent disposition. And is remarkable in the ship for his gentleness,and the mildness of his disipline... added to his well known integrity and dauntless courage, made me desirious to engage him.

An open and capacious forehead gave indications of a good understanding, joined to great frankness of disposition.

Our hands also say a lot about our disposition. If the arms of the person you're talking to are relaxed, then that's a positive sign. But if they are crossed, then it could mean that he is not into the conversation.

Samuel Johnson observed: "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson observed: "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove." Knowing

Samuel Johnson observó: «La fuente de la alegría debe brotar en la mente, y quien conozca tan poco la naturaleza humana como para buscar la felicidad en cualquier cosa que no sea su propia disposición, malgastará su vida en esfuerzos infructuosos y multiplicará las aflicciones que se propone suprimir».

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."—Samuel Johnson Knowing that we are responsible—"response-able"—is fundamental to effectiveness and to every other habit of effectiveness we will discuss.

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Persistent ill-humour is all too clear an indication that someone is living contrary to his[her] intended purpose.

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

Faith, as such, is merely a dispositive cause of justification,— part of its causa materialis, — whereas a Sacrament is a true efficient cause, though, of course, dependent for its efficacy on the disposition of the recipient, as upon a condition, because " wet wood can not catch fire." 23

The minister need not be in the state of grace, nor need he have the faith (negative disposi tion), but he must have the right intention (pos itive disposition).

The remission of punishments called an indulgence is not an unconditional amnesty, but postulates in the re cipient a moral disposition or worthiness, as well as the performance of certain prescribed acts. For this reason the moral worthiness of the recipient is not endangered by an indulgence, but rather partly taken for granted and partly effected. Charity or the love of God is the font and well-spring as well as the gauge and a necessary con dition of the whole system of indulgences.

The amount of sanctifying and special grace bestowed by a Sacrament depends chiefly on the disposition of the recipient.

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She grinned and shook her head. "Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

The person of faith is not a person who has been born, luckily, with a good digestion and sunny disposition. The assumption by outsiders that Christians are naive or protected is the opposite of the truth: Christians know more about the deep struggles of life than others, more about the ugliness of sin.