• People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.6 · 18 votes · 48 reads

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• So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 146 reads

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• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 142 reads

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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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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 102 reads

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• The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.9 · 59 votes · 129 reads

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• The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.3 · 62 votes · 108 reads

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• The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.3 · 55 votes · 156 reads

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• The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fea

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.6 · 37 votes · 45 reads

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• There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.

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  Anonymous

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• Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.1 · 39 votes · 168 reads

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• To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.5 · 25 votes · 65 reads

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• To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 37 votes · 80 reads

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• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.5 · 63 votes · 166 reads

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