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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It is good
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
It is good
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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.]
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
