"What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness?……" — Henry David Thoreau

More Gladness Quotes

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• What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads… — Helen Keller
• The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the… — 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"… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — Ben Jonson
• No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle… — Sun Tzu

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