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• The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn't get much better than this.

  Bill Bryson

  Coffee, Beer, Cities

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.

  Vallabhbhai Patel

  Motivational, Keep Smiling, Faith In God

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• Subordinates look for their bosses to be positive, in good humor, and cheerful. They aren't supposed to be emotional or have bad days. but leaders are guman, too, and when they are in a lousy mood and snap at a subordinate, it can have a devastating effect.

  Donald T. Phillips

  Motivational, Bad Day, Emotional

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• Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Gratitude, Prayer, People

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• The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

  Charles Kuralt

  Song, Winter, Singing

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• It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.

  William John Locke

  Girl, Husband, Kissing

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.13, tredition

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• Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Farewell, Bird

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• You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.

  Dave Barry

  Summer, Humorous, Drinking

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Fighting, Order

  Letter to Theo van Gogh, May 30, 1877.

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• Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Opposites, Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.

  William Osler

  Special, Looks, Care

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• You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Matter, Realizing

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.

  Sylvia Plath

  Want, Stuff, World

  Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath (1975). “Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

  Dean Koontz

  Despair, Leviathan, Persevere

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.234, Bantam

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• Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christian, Character, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

  Alexander Pope

  Rays, Morrow, Temper

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.133

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• And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?

  Robert Southey

  Summer, Tree, Hollies

  Robert Southey (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.129

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• Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

  John Lubbock

  World, Brightness, Palaces

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• To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Views, Use

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.683, Xist Publishing

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• The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).

  Kate Atkinson

  Would Be, Letters, Grim Reaper

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.144, Random House

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• The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
  The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
  All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
  Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Dark, Night

  William Cullen Bryant, “Hymn To The North Star”

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• The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other.

  William C. Bryant

  Determination, Dirty, Hard Work

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• All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

  Voltaire

  Sweet, People, Succeed

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• A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Culture, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.37

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• Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.178, Jazzybee Verlag

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