“There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 323.
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Source: Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982), P.29.
“Nothing sweetens life like a pleasant disposition.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 111
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Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)
Context: To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized — perhaps too much for our own good — in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as having reached morality — for that, much is lacking. The ideal of morality belongs to culture; its use for some simulacrum of morality in the love of honor and outward decorum constitutes mere civilization. So long as states waste their forces in vain and violent self-expansion, and thereby constantly thwart the slow efforts to improve the minds of their citizens by even withdrawing all support from them, nothing in the way of a moral order is to be expected. For such an end, a long internal working of each political body toward the education of its citizens is required. Everything good that is not based on a morally good disposition, however, is nothing but pretense and glittering misery. In such a condition the human species will no doubt remain until, in the way I have described, it works its way out of the chaotic conditions of its international relations.
“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”
“How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.”
"Poetry Is a Kind of Unconscious Autobiography" in The New York Times (12 May 1985)
Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909)
Dictatorships and Double Standards https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/dictatorships--double-standards-6189?page=all
Context: Traditional autocrats leave in place existing allocations of wealth, power, status, and other re- sources which in most traditional societies favor an affluent few and maintain masses in poverty. But they worship traditional gods and observe traditional taboos. They do not disturb the habitual rhythms of work and leisure, habitual places of residence, habitual patterns of family and personal relations. Because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society, learn to cope, as children born to untouchables in India acquire the skills and attitudes necessary for survival in the miserable roles they are destined to fill.