#cheerful

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. ↗

— Arthur Murphy

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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

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But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes. ↗

— James Otis

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life. ↗

— David Wooster

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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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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

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Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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