I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away
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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.
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The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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