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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ↗

— Aristotle

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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. ↗

— William Feather

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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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Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good. ↗

— J.R. Miller

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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Lydia M. Child

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