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A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty
attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Tatler", no. 192
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For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn
shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
Author: Bible
Source: Zechariah (ch. IX, v. 17)
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Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 1011)
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Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose,
Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 1853)
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A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
Author: Philander Chase Johnson
Source: in "Everybody's Magazine", May, 1920
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It is good
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Legend of Brittany (pt. I, st. 35)
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That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
[Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Amorum (I, 2, 10)
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Had she been light, like you,
Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,
She might ha' been a grandam ere she died;
And so may you, for a light heart lives long.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Katharine at V, ii)
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Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me.
Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am
To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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He makes a July's day short as December,
And with his varying childness cures in me
Thoughts that would thick my blood.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at I, ii)
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As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its
troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he
were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not
justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at I, ii)
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A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: From the Dark Chambers
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The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
Author: P. Godwin
Source: None
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Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!
Author: Philander Johnson
Source: None
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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Author: Edwin Percy Whipple
Source: None
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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Author: Helen Keller
Source: None
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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.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: None
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A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Source: None
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
Author: Christian Nestell Bovee
Source: None
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Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness ;there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: None
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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