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• Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

  George Washington Cable

  Lord, Giver, Knows

  George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.1, University of Georgia Press

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• The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

  Leigh Hunt

  Men, People, Half

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• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strength, Happiness, Power

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• Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Birthday, Childhood

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• To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Art, Gay

  "From Grandmother with Love". Book by Becky Kelly and Patrick Regan, 2005.

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• Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.

  Mason Cooley

  Funny Relationship, Talking, Shortcomings

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• Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Creativity, Godly

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Loyalty, Grateful, Heart

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• 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.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Literature, World

  H. G. Wells (2017). “Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) (PublishDrive)

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• Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Past, Language, Speak

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• Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

  George Gissing

  Money, Use, Miserable

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.245, The Floating Press

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• Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

  Franz Marc

  Spiritual, Blue, Two

  Susanna Partsch, Franz Marc (2001). “Marc”, p.26, Taschen

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• Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

  Henry Adams

  Sweet, Morning, Thank God

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

  Isaac Barrow

  Friendship, Faith, Book

  Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works”, p.78

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• The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

  Crystal Eastman

  Ignorance, Men, Average

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

  Alistair Cooke

  Spring, People, Generosity

  "Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence". Book by David Wilkinson, p. 3, August 1, 2013.

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• Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

  Tryon Edwards

  Men, Years, Age

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.929, Ravenio Books

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• No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.

  Stephen Fry

  Taken, Journey, Ideas

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• The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Years, Goodness

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• Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A determination to be of good cheer can help us and those around us to enjoy life more fully.

  Barbara W. Winder

  Happiness, Determination, Cheer

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• One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spirit, Habit, Midst

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.720, Modern Library

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• Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'

  Jo Ann Davis

  People, Doe, Answers

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• A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

  Joseph Addison

  Innocence, Attractive, Wit

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.153

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• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

  William James

  Fear, Brave, Use

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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