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Quotations
On Cheerfulness
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- Cheerfulness
is full of significance:
it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with
all
human nature.—CHARLES KINGSLEY.
- As in
our
lives so also in our
studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with
cheerfulness,
that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter
degenerate into licentiousness.—PLINY.
- A
merry
heart doeth good like
a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.—PROVERBS 17:22.
- Be of
good
cheer.—JOHN 16:33.
- The
mind
that is cheerful in
its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future,
and
will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.—HORACE.
- An
ounce
of cheerfulness is
worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.—FULLER.
- If
good
people would but make
their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their
virtue,
how many would they win to the good cause!—ARCHBISHOP USHER.
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- You
find
yourself refreshed
by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to
confer
that pleasure on others? You will find half the battle is gained if you
never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.—MRS. L.M. CHILD.
- Inner
sunshine warms not only
the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.—J.T.
FIELDS.
- The
way to
cheerfulness is to
keep our bodies in exercise and our minds at ease.—STEELE.
- Let us
be
of good cheer, remembering
that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never
happen.—LOWELL.
- A
cheerful
temper, joined with
innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit
good-natured.
It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert ignorance
into
an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.—ADDISON.
- Between
levity and cheerfulness
there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity
is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness.—BLAIR.
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