#cheerful

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings. ↗

— Rita Dove

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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#half #man #only #person #serious

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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I'm basically quite a cheerful person. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#always #cheerful #exercise #expect #hurry

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

#better #broke #cheerful #decided #else

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

— Thomas Fuller

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You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#back #cheerfulness #extra #height #inches

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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