 | Janina Renee - 2000 - 292 lehte
...promotes growth. Cultivate sunny thoughts as you hold in mind the words of Joseph Addison, who said, "Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." If you have been suffering from depression and this is difficult for you, there are techniques for... | |
 | Kathy Wagoner - 2002 - 390 lehte
...to be happy, and again to be happy is the true aim and end of life. — Llewelyn Powys 363 Mihtíi is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and —Joseph Addison begets enthusiasm.... | |
 | 2003 - 136 lehte
...greatest 57 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. Cheerfulness bears the same friendly regard to the mind as to the body; it banishes all anxious care... | |
 | Terry Lynn Taylor - 2011 - 272 lehte
...to play again. Fun is contagious; let it start with you and then spread to those around you. >ta-^ Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — JOSEPH ADDISON Mirth is a little different from fun, although the two often go together. Picture... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 lehte
...Democritus Junior, 1577-1640 ~ What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~ Yiddish Saying ~ Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through...and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ~ Joseph Addison, 1672-1719 ~ Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 298 lehte
...greatest depression 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." — ADDISON (Spectator, No. 381). LECTURE THE THIRD. 40.24 my lord the Earl of Warwick* * The husband... | |
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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... 
