A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.
— Addison
Addison
Shows how a cheerful, innocent temper enhances beauty, wit, and endurance of hardship.
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— Carlyle
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— Sir J. Lubbock
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Be cheerful and joyful, always having something in mind sufficiently elevated to make you so.
— Unknown
A happy temper, like the Æolian harp, sings to every breeze.
— Unknown
