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.
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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.
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
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.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, read more
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.
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
[Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
[Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]
