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Letter "C" » cheerfulness
«Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb»
Author: Benjamin Rush
(Physician)
| Keywords:
cheerfulness, employed, frozen, hot water, In Hot Water, in low spirits, limb, low-spirited, low spirits, mirth, remedies, spirits
«Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any Whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God»
«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.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Cheerfulness
| Keywords:
cheerfulness, daylight, daylights, fills, flash, glitters, gloom, in the mind, lightning, mirth, perpetual, serenity, steady
«The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
cheerfulness, continued, manifest, manifesting, sign
«Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Suffering
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A Beautiful Mind, bears, bear in mind, calamities, cheerfulness, insensibility
«Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
cheerfulness, mirth, overtake, overtaken, overtaking, passing
«The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
cheerfulness, continual, plainest, regions, serene, The Moon
«So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Cheerfulness,
Temper
| Keywords:
cheerfulness, good-tempered, good temper, remains, spent, temper
«Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.»
«The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
As If, cheerfully, cheerfulness, path, sit, The Path
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