Cheerful Quotes - 2
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The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.
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More Cheerful Quotes
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
Bible (Old Testament)— Proverbs15:13.
So let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Bible (NewTestament)— 1 Corinthians 9:7.
The American people?were like him: cheerful, optimistic, patriotic, inconsistent, and casually inattentive.
— 1991 Of President Ronald Reagan. Deadline. US cosmetics salesman, founder with his brother Joseph and chemist Charles Lachman of Revlon Inc (1932). His success was due to initiatives such as giving exotic names to colours and also to intimidation and attacks on competitors.
All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him and rejoice. Know that the Lord is God indeed; Without our aid he did us make: We are his folk, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take.
Scottish Metrical Psalms— 1650 Psalm100:1-3.
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.
blair hugh— P. 501. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Sing louder around To the bells' cheerful sound, While our sports shall be seen On the echoing green.
william blake— The Ecchoing Green, st. 1
I've always had these bouts of depression; I hide them well but doesn't mean they aren't there. ... I didn't have anyone around for whom I had to put on a cheerful mask. The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.
charles de lint— "Journal Entries", p. 186
He sows June fields with clover, and the worldBroadcasts with little common kindnesses.The plain good souls He sends us, who fulfillLife's homely duties in the daily pathWith cheerful heart, ambitious of no moreThan to supply the wants of friend and kin,Yet serve God's higher love to human hearts;Giving a secret sweetness to the home,The hidden fragrance of a kindly heart,The simple beauty of a useful life,That never dazzles, and that never tires.
samuel longfellow— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 544.
[Darwin's] triumph has won for us a common height from which we see the whole world of living beings as well as all inorganic nature; phenomena of every order we now regard as expressions of natural causes. The supernatural has no longer a standing is science; it has vanished like a dream, and the halls consecrated to its thraldom of the intellect are becoming radiant with a more cheerful faith.
— lecture at Clark University, "A study in evolution, based on color-characters in pigeons, and bearing on moot questions" (1909), quoted in Eight Little Piggies (W.W. Norton, 1993) by Stephen Jay Gould, page 366
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.
lydia maria child— Source: Letters from New York, vol. 1, letter 37.
Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs...have usurped a large part of the soil.
william cobbett— Political Register (21 December 1816), quoted in Karl W. Schweizer and John W. Osborne, Cobbett and His Times (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990), p. 31.
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.
dinah maria mulock— Ch. 10. (A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858))
What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil!
dinah maria mulock— Ch. 10. (A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858))
Devout yet cheerful, active yet resigned.
samuel rogers— Samuel Rogers, Pleasures of Memory.
Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.
john greenleaf whittier— John Greenleaf Whittier, Daniel Neall, II.
Soon as Aurora drives away the night, And edges eastern clouds with rosy light, The healthy huntsman, with the cheerful horn, Summons the dogs, and greets the dappled morn.
john gay— John Gay, Rural Sports, Canto II, line 93.
Some men are born old, and some never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful we are always young, and at last die in youth, even when years would count us old.
— A Dictionary of Thoughts, p. 385.
A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 192.
A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
George Herbert— George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).
A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, From the Dark Chambers.
Corn shall make the young men cheerful.
— Zachariah, IX. 17. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand: My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne; And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act V, scene 1, line 1.
Rise, happy morn, rise, holy morn, Draw forth the cheerful day from night; O Father, touch the east, and light The light that shone when Hope was born.
— Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Part XXX
Be cheerful while you are alive.
— Maxim no. 34. (The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BC))
Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, And where the ground is bright with friendship's tears, Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue, Spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.
— William Cullen Bryant, translation of N. Miller's Paradise of Tears.
Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue, Spring, glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.
— N. Muller, The Paradise of Tears. translation. by Bryant.
Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.
— Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 13, p. 29.
[Darwin's] triumph has won for us a common height from which we see the whole world of living beings as well as all inorganic nature; phenomena of every order we now regard as expressions of natural causes. The supernatural has no longer a standing is science; it has vanished like a dream, and the halls consecrated to its thraldom of the intellect are becoming radiant with a more cheerful faith.
— Charles Otis Whitman, lecture at Clark University, "A study in evolution, based on color-characters in pigeons, and bearing on moot questions" (1909)
Joy shivers in the corner where she knits And Conscience always has the rocking-chair, cheerful as when she tortured into fits The first cat that was ever killed by Care.
Edwin Arlington Robinson— 1925 Dionysus in Doubt,'New England'. distribution based on the work of Keynes. Her works include The Economics of Imperfect Competition (1933) and Economic Heresies (1971).
