“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.” IfsMindFirstsChildrenSoulMatterMightLawSpiritOrderEnergyLanguageNaturalMemoriesForgetResultsTeachVirtueTeacherYouthFineGeniusJudgmentGloryOur ChildrenImpulseSuccess In LifeDependenceDispositionScopeEloquenceEndeavourVivacity Author:Luc de Clapiers
“Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.” MindLittlesCharacterShowsSpiritChristPerfectPrinciplesGoodnessGloryTrialsOccasionsDispositionExhibitsLoftyGreat OnesSuperhumanBraces Book:Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God Source: Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God
“The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.” SpiritFireAngerHardestDisposition Author:William Hazlitt
“Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness.” WayChristianSpiritHolyGloryHoly SpiritTendernessModestDispositionGlory Of GodPromptsIndescribableAllure Author:Charles Seymour Robinson
“You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.” ArtSpiritOrderAirArt IsHorseDisposition Author:William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle