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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 22)
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As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious,
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: Tam o' Shanter
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Go then merrily to Heaven.
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. 3, memb. 1)
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Some credit in being jolly.
Charles Dickens
Quotes , Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (ch. V)
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A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: The Secular Masque (l. 40)
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And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke.
[The more the merrier.]
George Gascoigne
Quotes , Source: Works (I, 64), (edited by Hazlitt)
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Mirth, admit me of thy crew,
To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreprov'd pleasures free.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: L'Allegro (l. 38)
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Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare.
Sir Walter Scott
Quotes , Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto I, st. 21)
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What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully
my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow.
Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good
fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have
a play extempore.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at II, iv)
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And if you can be merry then, I'll say
A man may weep upon his wedding day.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Speaker at prologue)
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We never valued this poor seat of England,
And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common
That men are merriest when they are from home.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at I, ii)
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So the gods bless me,
When all our offices have been oppressed
With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept
With drunken spilth of wine, when every room
Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy,
I have retired me to a wasteful cock
And set mine eyes at flow.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Steward at II, ii)
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Berowne they call him; but a merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Rosaline at II, i)
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To move wild laughter in the throat of death?
It cannot be; it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at V, ii)
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
And let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i)
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For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there
live we as merry as the day is long.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at II, i)
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(Pedro:) In faith, lady, you have a merry heart.
(Beatrice:) Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on the
windy side of care.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Pedro & Beatrice at II, i)
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(Pedro:) Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best
becomes you for out o' question you were born in a merry hour.
(Beatrice:) No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there
was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Pedro & Beatrice at II, i)
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I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am by seeming otherwise.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at II, i)
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Therefore they thought it good for hear a play
And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Messenger at induction, ii)
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