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“It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition. This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible.”

People Thinking Littles Matter Seems Lasts Opportunity Natural Our Lives Exercise Accounts Stupidity Manage Former Settling Spite Disposition Plague Disappoint Tenors Caprice Perversity

Author:William Hazlitt

“If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.”

“(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.”

Desire Suffering Individual Given Difficult Goal Natural Effects Truth Is Expectations Ethics Absolutes Notion Determine Pursue Ethical Disposition Absolute Truth

Author:Dalai Lama

“There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.”

Men Character Difficult Natural Common Judging Disposition Good Writers Authorship Bad Man Antithesis Personal Character

Book:Literature and life, lects

Source: Literature and life, lects

“When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.”

Children Doe Seems Moving Order House Natural Doors Dog Objects Tables Chaos Chairs Disposition Natural Order Tables And Chairs

Book:Bowen's Court

Source: Bowen's Court

“Why did Americans smile so often? Was it out of politeness or because of a gay disposition? Whatever it was, I for one had never been spoiled with smiles. I found it very pleasant! ... I was beginning to understand that with Americans smiling was, as with healthy infants, a natural need. And my reaction was to respond in the same way.”

Way Needs Found Natural United States Healthy Gay Reactions Pleasant Disposition Infant Politeness Spoiled

Book:Only One Year

Source: Only One Year

“It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.”

Needs Children Parent Natural Prayer Ability Creatures Creator Aids Reasonable Dependent Disposition

Book:Outlines of Moral Science

Source: Outlines of Moral Science

“There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and the love of action. If the former is refined by art and learning, improved by the charms of social intercourse, and corrected by a just regard to economy, to health, and to reputation, it is productive of the greatest part of the happiness of private life.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus

“If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.”

Ifs Men Two Soul Whole Natural Quality Moral Opinion Virtue Acquire Faculty Disposition Prudence Cleverness Forming Opinions

Author:Aristotle

“All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.”

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.”

Natural Study Generations Masters Genius Disease Patience Ancient Rely Contempt Disposition Impatience Ancient Wisdom Sagacity

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?”

Giving Mind Easy Natural Compliment Formal Disposition Civility Politeness Trifles Benevolent Converses Amiable

Author:William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

“To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.”

Writing Mind Wells Natural Creativity Cases Produce Performances Miserable Disposition Tolerable

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.”

Men Natural Pleasure Abuse Praise Disposition Neighbour Impatience Slander

Author:Demosthenes