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(On the great colonel Robert Green Ingersoll) There was logic even in his laughter. He passed the cup of mirth, and in its sparkling foam were found the gems of unanswerable truth. Every variety of power was in this orator, – logic and poetry, humor and imagination, simplicity and dramatic art, moral and boundless sympathy. . . The effect on the people was indescribable. The large theatre was crowded from pit to dome. The people were carried from plaudits of his argument to loud laughter at his humorous sentences, and his flexible voice carried the sympathies of the assembly with it, at times moving them to tears by his pathos.


Moncure Daniel Conway


#logic #mirth #pathos #reason #respect

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air; The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go; They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,— There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life’s gall. Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. Succeed and give, and it helps you live, But no man can help you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a large and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain.


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


#laugh #mirth #pain #trouble #life

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.


Edith Wharton


#solitude #the-house-of-mirth #life

I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person.


Edith Wharton


#life

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.


William Shakespeare


#laughter #mirth #old #wrinkles

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.


Edith Wharton


#insignificance #unpopularity #vanity #vanity

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.


Henry Ward Beecher


#human #human life #life #mirth #offered

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.


James Thurber


#appreciative #audience #cannot #chuckle #comedy

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


#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.


George Ade


#cold #dawn #gray #laughter #mirth






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