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Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer read more
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.
 Had she been light, like you,
 Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,
  She might ha' been read more 
 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. 
 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn 
shall make the young men cheerful, read more 
 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn 
shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids. 
 Cheered up himself with ends of verse
 And sayings of philosophers.  
 Cheered up himself with ends of verse
 And sayings of philosophers. 
Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive
Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
 It is good
 To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.  
 It is good
 To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. 
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
 Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose,
 Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.  
 Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose,
 Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.