#cheerful

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better. ↗

— Peter Finch

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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

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I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

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

— Arthur Murphy

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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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