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A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied read more
A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something - the mortality of the optimist.
Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer read more
Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness ;there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.
As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its
troubles, I hold that a reasonable read more
As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its
troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he
were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not
justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity
No good deed goes unpunished.
No good deed goes unpunished.
I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.
I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows read more
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.
Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.
