Many Thoughts of Many Minds - A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Various
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CHEERFULNESS.--Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good
health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.--CHARLES KINGSLEY. As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.--PLINY. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.--PROVERBS 17:22. Be of good cheer.--JOHN 16:33. The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.--HORACE. An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.--FULLER. If good people would but make their goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause!--ARCHBISHOP USHER. Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness.--BLAIR. You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why |
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