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• Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

  William Osler

  Sad, Comfort, Helping

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.302, Duke University Press

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• Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

  Mother Teresa

  Sacrifice, Soul, Trying

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.33, Random House

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• Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Get Well, Yoga

  The Spectator Vol. V, No. 387 (1712)

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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, Cheerful, Literature

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

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• I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

  Charles Dickens

  Humble, Desire, Increase

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14051, Delphi Classics

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• Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

  Adam Smith

  Christian, Fake People, Real

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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.

  William James

  Happiness, Cheerful, Path

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

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• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

  Benjamin Rush

  Water, Hot, Frozen

  Benjamin Rush (1835). “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind”, p.119

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• As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

  Albert J. Nock

  Parent, Might, Saws

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• The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

  Georg Brandes

  Glee, Danish, Versions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

  Charles Simeon

  Sweet, Acceptance, Men

  Charles Simeon, William Carus, Charles Pettit McIivaine (Bp.), Daniel Wilson (1847). “Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: with a selection from his writings and correspondence”, p.518

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• Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Happiness, Strong

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. V: Of mountain beauty”, p.328

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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, Cheerful

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

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• Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

  Charles Kingsley

  Soul, Self Improvement, Human Nature

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• It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lasts, Sunny, Mood

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.61

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• When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Wedding, Gratitude

  Mary Oliver (1993). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

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• The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  People, Genius, Geniality

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• A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.

  George Herbert

  Dishes

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

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• God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Cheer, Alliances, Action

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.195

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• 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 the Elder

  Wise, Mind, May

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• Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Goodness

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• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

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• Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

  Swift, Jonathan (2016). “A Tale of a Tub - (1704)”, p.80, Read Books Ltd

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• Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Winter, Age, Lapland

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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