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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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.
Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.
Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive
Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive
Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.
Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]
A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]
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.
He makes a July's day short as December,
And with his varying childness cures in me
Thoughts read more
He makes a July's day short as December,
And with his varying childness cures in me
Thoughts that would thick my blood.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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.
