 | Constance M. Whishaw - 1908 - 402 lehte
...And so of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains." EMERSON. " MIRTH is like a flash of lightning that breaks through...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." ADDISON. ' ALWAYS laugh when you can ; it is a cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 lehte
...CHEERFULNESS. 65 habit of the mind. Mirth ie short and traitaient ; cheerfulness, fixed and permanent. Mirth ie like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom...Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — A Mitón. You have not fulfilled every duty unless... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 lehte
...CHEERFULNESS. 65 habit of the mind. Mirth is ehort and transient ; cheerfulness, fixed and permanent. fu glitter» for a moment. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady... | |
 | Alice B. Macdonald - 1911 - 630 lehte
...greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Joseph Addison: The Spectator. Perhaps few people have ever asked themselves why they admire a... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - 1919 - 480 lehte
...greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling...kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a sort of steady and permanent serenity. " Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too wanton and... | |
 | William Dodge Lewis, James Fleming Hosic - 1927 - 552 lehte
...cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind so exquisite a gladness, prevents us from falling into the depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning...Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and nils it with a steady and perfect serenity. PRACTICE Read the essay The Turning Point in My Life and... | |
 | Saskatchewan. Department of Education - 1910 - 260 lehte
...the contrary cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents it from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like...up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with steady and perpetual serenity. (ii) O gift of God! O perfect day; Whereon shall no man work, but play... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 lehte
..."Intelligence and Grace* (1947; tr. 1952). See Jlso Weil on GENIUS; l , ,i. r ,ltk,. on PRIDf. HUMOR 1 Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters tor a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 lehte
...DICKENS, (1812-1870) British novelist. Uriah Heep, ¡n David Copperfield, eh. 17(1849-1850). Humor 1 Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. JOSEPH ADDISON, (1672-1719) British essayist. Spectator (London, May 1 7, 1 71 2), no. 381, The Spectator,... | |
 | Philip Wiebe - 1999 - 156 lehte
...through the ties and binds of relationships, you will find as Joseph Addison has so aptly stated that "cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Phil Wiebe is a writer, editor and columnist who is also an accomplished guitarist, songwriter and... | |
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Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such... 
