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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

~Adam Smith

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As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Anything Cheerfulness Discontent Failure Indeed Lack Life Lot Might Needed Never Over Parents Poor Quite Saw Seemed Somehow Supposed Trace Were

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When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

~Andrea Bocelli

Topics: About Am Bit Cheerfulness Contrary Convinced Expertise Firmly First Get Give Goal Happiness Joy Life Love Must Neighbor On The Contrary Order Passionate Show Sing Stage Well You Your I Am

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

~Aristotle

Topics: Anyone Bears Beautiful Becomes Calamities Cheerfulness Great Greatness Mind Suffering Through

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Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

~Arthur Murphy

Topics: Cheerfulness Composition Health Ingredient Principle Sir

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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

~Benjamin Rush

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

~Charles Kingsley

Topics: Being Best Breed Cheerfulness Content Diligence Do Your Best Forced Hundred Idle Know Never Self-Control Strength Temperance Virtues Which Will Work You Your

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With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

~Charles Simeon

Topics: Acceptance Always Before Cheerfulness Cultivate Deepest Enjoyed God Hope Humiliation Incessantly Men Much Same Same Time Sweet Time Ultimate

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I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

~Charles Spurgeon

Topics: Better Cheerfulness Command Constant Desires Done General Him His How Live Lord Manner Mercy Obedience Our Ourselves Perpetual Submission Than Thanksgiving Thing Think Whose Will I Think

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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

~Charlotte Bronte

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