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• 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

  Mind, Bitter, States

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• Be cheerful, if you are wise.

  Martial

  Wise, Ifs

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• In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

  Plautus

  Advantage, Disposition, Reap

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• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Sadness, Ideas, Tree

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1882). “The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]”

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• For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

  Edmund Spenser

  Eye, Night, Sight

  Edmund Spenser (1850). “Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].”, p.31

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• Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Brightness, Purses, Stranger

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.

  Leigh Hunt

  Lying, Mean, Evil

  Leigh Hunt (1851). “Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.37, Smith, Elder

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• A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Temptation, May

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.59, Litres

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• Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire
  To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;
  Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,
  And every stranger finds a ready chair
  Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,
  Where all the ruddy family around
  Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail,
  Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,
  Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
  And learn the luxury of doing good.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pain, Simple, Fire

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.81

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• Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

  "My Life for the Poor". Book by Mother Teresa, 1985.

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• One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

  John Ray

  Passion, Health, Mean

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• Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.

  Mary Pipher

  Courage, Morning, Alzheimer's

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• There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Journey, Speech

  Alice Meynell (2015). “The Children”, p.6, Alice Meynell

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• On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Space, Feelings

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• Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sadness, Thinking, People

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• On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.

  Isabel Fonseca

  Art, Lying, Long

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• I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round.

  Susan Hale

  Believe, Solitude, Difficulty

  Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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• Early in life, I decided that I would not be overcome by events. My philosophy has been that regardless of the circumstances, I shall not be vanquished, but will try to be happy. Life is not easy for any of us. But it is a continual challenge, and it is up to us to be cheerful - and to be strong, so that those who depend on us may draw strength from our example.

  Rose Kennedy

  Strong, Philosophy, Happy Life

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Topics, Wealth

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