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Cheerfulness
and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous
preservers of youthful looks.
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
I feel an
earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase
the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
So of
cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the
more it remains.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
It is not
fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face
or a chilling look.
-- St. Francis of Assisi
1181-1226, Italian Preacher,
Founder of the Franciscan Orde
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A cheerful
face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
An ounce of
cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
-- Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman,
Author
The true
source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
-- P. Godwin
Thus the
sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be
lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if
cheerfulness were already there.
-- William James
1842-1910, American
Psychologist, Professor, Author
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