Cheerfulness Quote by Joseph Addison

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“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity”

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Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

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There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

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Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing…

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As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

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There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply…

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When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

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Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

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When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice,…

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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned…

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Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden……

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Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others,…

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I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus…

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I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable…

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Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control…

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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“The people that humanity needs most are those who manage to be cheerful even on a frightening dark street, because high morale is the…

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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

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