“ To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ The ultimate test of servanthood is that those being served, by the way they are served, ultimately become disposed themselves to be servants. ”
- Robert K. Greenleaf- Copy
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“ We are always doing, says he, "something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.". ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us. ”
- Sir Richard Steele- Copy
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“ We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ There is no doubt that the poorer classes in our country are much more charitably disposed than their superiors in wealth. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. ”
- Patrick Henry- Copy
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“ Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ I say now and have often said before, Fathers of the Senate, that a well-disposed and helpful prince, to whom you have given such great and unrestrained power, ought to be the servant of the Senate, often of the citizens as a whole, and sometimes even of individuals. ”
- Tiberius Caesar- Copy
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“ Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. ”
- Robert Baden Powell- Copy
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“ We are going to be obviously looking at all legislation to see how it impacts... job creation and job retention. If we feel it's going to hurt those prospects, we'll be fighting to kill that legislation. ”
- Chuck Berry- Copy
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“ The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama… Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly. ”
- Haniel Long- Copy
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“ Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations. ”
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt- Copy
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“ I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. ”
- Sir Thomas More- Copy
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“ It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. ”
- Anne Bronte- Copy
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