#cheerful

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. ↗

— William Feather

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If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. ↗

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. ↗

— James Wolfe

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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I love those who can smile in trouble... ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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To make the fastest progress, Be an absolutely cheerful Hero-warrior And take both victory and failure As parallel experience rivers Leading to the sea Of progress-delight. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#failure #hero-warrior #progress #victory-defeat #experience