Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline

As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its
troubles, I hold that a reasonable read more

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.

Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me.
Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am
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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.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

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.

Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease

Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to read more

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.