Gladness Quotes

143 quotes by 113 authors

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks… — Helen Keller
The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient… — Lydia M. Child
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton
Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the… — Charles Hodge
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. — Saadi
Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend. Leaving… — Charles Wesley
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness. — Ossie Davis
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. — Benjamin Disraeli
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their… — Maurice Maeterlinck
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. — Bliss Carman
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. — Ben Jonson
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If… — Sun Tzu
Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude. — William Arthur Ward
In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a… — Mark Twain
My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement. — Amy B. Lyman
We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. — Abraham Lincoln
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand. — Friedrich Schiller
There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part… — Charles Eliot Norton
A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it;… — Mark Twain

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