"You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better."
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"Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting."
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"To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion."
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"The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace."
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"Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver."
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"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate."
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"Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful."
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"Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'"
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"Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout."
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"I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose."
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"Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?"
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"He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected."
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"The more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are."
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"You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you don't find many on the loss of friends, relatives, and lovers from death or alienation, though it happens all the time."
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"Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years."
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"Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success."
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"Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue."
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"You are. I'm just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends."
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"O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge."
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"The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way."
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