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

— Lydia M. Child

#cheerful #childhood #itself #kindly #lovely

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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If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. ↗

— 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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Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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

— Arthur Murphy

#composition #health #ingredient #principle #sir

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. ↗