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If my heart were not light, I would die.

If the soul be happily disposed everything becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. See quote detail

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the offshoot of goodness.

The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.

The mind that is cheerful at present will have no solicitude for the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a smile.

The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exercise and our minds at ease.

To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meals, and of sleep, and of exercise, is one of the best precepts of long-lasting.

To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Goodness smiles to the last.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous, - a spirit all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being cheerful and pleasant.


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