Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Cheerfulness
A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.
Addison—The Tatler. No. 192.
Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto III. L. 1,011.
Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose,
Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.
Goldsmith—The Traveller. L. 1,853.
A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
Herbert—Jacula Prudentum.
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
Philander Johnson. See Everybody’s Magazine. May, 1920. P. 36. See Tennyson—Sea Dreams, L. 5 from end.
It is good
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
Lowell—Legend of Brittany. Pt. I. St. 35.
Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
Ovid—Amorum. I. 2. 10.
Had she been light, like you,
Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,
She might ha’ been a grandam ere she died;
And so may you; for a light heart lives long.
Love’s Labour’s Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 15.
Look cheerfully upon me.
Here, love; thou seest how dilgent I am.
Taming of the Shrew. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 38.
He makes a July’s day short as December,
And with his varying childness cures in me
Thoughts that would thick my blood.
Winter’s Tale. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 169.
A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
Wordsworth—From the Dark Chambers.
Corn shall make the young men cheerful.
Zachariah. IX. 17.