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Quotation with: "cheerful"
"The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the place;The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reprove:These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please;These were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms but all these charms are fled. - Deserted Village, The."
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
About: Literature
"Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss."
Author: Robert Burns
About: Literature
"The cheerful loser is the winner."
Author: Elbert Hubbard
About: Loss
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."
Author: Thomas B. Aldrich
About: Men and Women
"The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man."
Author: Leigh Hunt
About: Men and Women
"He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch,
Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief
Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some."
Author: William Cowper
About: Post
"Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet
A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs
Of coming mischief is thy great delight,
Good dost thou ne'er foretell nor bring to pass."
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
About: Prophecy Prophesy
"A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of
the heart the spirit is broken."
Author: Bible
About: Proverbs
"A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
[A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]"
Author: George Herbert
About: Proverbs
"The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike
the melancholy."
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About: Proverbs
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