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  • At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.
  • The cheerfulness he preached was always qualified by an awareness of the real world's iniquity.
  • She teaches how to continue with discretion what is thoughtlessly undertaken; she inclines the mind to cleave steadfastly to what was imposed upon it by authority; and imparts to a choice which, though rash at the time, is now irrevocable, all the sanctity, all the advisedness, and, let us say it boldly, all the cheerfulness of a lawful calling. Chapter X
  • Yea," is thy word to me with the tongue: say it to me with thy mind, and with the word mourn heavily, that thou mayest have continual cheerfulness. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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  • In this dark solitary place, married to this shy, watchful man, her cheerfulness was a bubble-bath in a blizzard.
  • They're home movies, with all the cheerfulness and awkwardness the term implies, except that the home is Obersalzberg, Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat, where Hitler is seen giving a persuasive—unless you pay close attention—impression of a full human being. 'Pariah' Stands Apart—As Fresh Teen Tale
  • Cheerfulness doesn't always imply happiness.
  • Although he is now housed in an open prison, and he maintains a certain hearty cheerfulness, few doubt that Archer has been chastened by his prison experience.
  • flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room
  • Whatever it is, they say it hundreds of times an hour with endless patience and cheerfulness.
  • You assume, in your essay, that cheerfulness is a good thing. Nietzsche the Pantheist? | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • The weight of the oleaginous air they were breathing lightened perceptibly, while the nearest sphacelated fungi seemed to recoil from the unrelenting cheerfulness, a perception that turned out to be anything but imaginary. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
  • All the surroundings and employments of the pregnant woman should be such as conduce to cheerfulness and equanimity. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
  • I spoke with mothers fretful and tearful about their bleak prospects but struggling to maintain a facade of optimism and cheerfulness in the presence of their children.
  • The good is given many names, amongst them euthymia or cheerfulness, as well as privative terms, e.g. for the absence of fear. Democritus
  • The philosophy of individualism defined cheerfulness as the most beneficial of emotions since it served the self.
  • Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. 
  • These disasters were enough to discourage anyone, but the cheerful bearing of the Commander was an example to all of us-for cheerfulness is the key-note of success in moments like these. With Shackleton to the Antarctic
  • What is your strongest trait ? Helpfulness and caring . Adaptability and sense of humor . Cheerfulness and friendliness.
  • Wilder's Wonka had the basic cheerfulness from the book, but was more languid; Willy Wonka on 'ludes. MOVIE REVIEW: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • It was a traverse through a world of humility, patience and submission - a long and tedious journey to be undertaken with faith, conviction and cheerfulness.
  • Working through these difficult times is a challenge for all our staff who have maintained their integrity, application and cheerfulness.
  • Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. 
  • It finds expression in acts of particular virtues or vices like honesty, generosity, cheerfulness, jealousy or cruelty.
  • A short and animated conversation with her lover, as the day began to wane, partially recalled her wonted cheerfulness, but when he was gone she relapsed into her former mood. The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion. By the author of "The Kentuckian in New-York." In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
  • May everything beautiful and best be condensed into this card. I sincerely wish you happiness, cheerfulness and success.
  • He wants to talk about his life, andmost of the stories are told with a tone of triumphant cheerfulness? these are chapters in anarrative that has Alfie battling against the oddsstacked against him and usually winning inthe face of adversity, surviving on his wits, using his unconventional skills to make up for what he is lacking in academic qualifications andfamily support. 'I don't want to live on the dole and sell weed'
  • ‘Nothing very dramatic gained and certainly nothing dramatic lost,’ explained another White House official, with a cheerfulness that might in other circumstances be regarded as rank ingratitude.
  • Cheerfulness and goodwill make labour light. 
  • Far from the Caribbean vibrancy of Miami or the Disney cheerfulness of Orlando, this sleepy town lies hard against the Georgia border in the northernmost region of the panhandle.
  • People with pain can be fractious and difficult, and elderly people may not be paragons of charm and cheerfulness.
  • Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. 
  • Dave's active contribution to the running of the Club will be greatly missed as will his constant cheerfulness and unfailing sense of humour.
  • She hummed quite happily again, her two red cheeks exuding her interrupted cheerfulness.
  • But he would much rather be on the boat, facing aliens, monsters, and just plain bad guys, than facing the cheerfulness and gaiety of another Christmas season.
  • How were things going, I asked him, putting on a show of cheerfulness, hoping that he was seeing some ray of light in the present darkness?
  • It was a traverse through a world of humility, patience and submission - a long and tedious journey to be undertaken with faith, conviction and cheerfulness.
  • He impressed everyone with his spirit, cheerfulness and can-do attitude, and was an inspiration to other children, said Mrs Sinker.
  • The over-abundant cheerfulness seemed to have stemmed from that time.
  • Gradually, however, the talking became more infrequent, the cheerfulness passed into a kind of placidity; and without any particular crisis or sign of the end, Robert Browning
  • Her poilu is her beau ideal of faith and courage, of patriotism and devotion to the principles of human rights, of cheerfulness and hopefulness, of invincibility in that his cause is just. Foch the Man
  • From the perspective of immigrant writers it seems clear that Anglo-American culture fosters and encourages cheerfulness, positive thinking, and staying in control.
  • May everything beautiful and best be condensed into this card. I sincerely wish you happiness, cheerfulness and success.
  • Before Damian could answer with a smart remark the Doctor stepped in with forced cheerfulness.
  • Though silently, and for the most part incommunicatively, going about their business, they were, no doubt, a source of cheerfulness and a kind of society to one another. Cape Cod
  • Shanti and Chris were very helpful in every way, and Shanti's ready laughter and general cheerfulness was a great comfort.
  • Strength of mind and pliancy are the causes and result of cheerfulness.
  • William Hurt is a willing, low-key accomplice, a good foil for Kosminsky's gracious manner and slightly stagy cheerfulness.
  • I am sure the removal of these trees will make the general appearance of the house increase in cheerfulness; and I can now only recommend you strongly to take care that your rooms are well ventilated, by the windows being always opened in fine weather, whenever the rooms are unoccupied, for, I repeat, though you laughed at my former assertion, that a free circulation of air is essential both to health and happiness. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • During this special time, all temples and some churches light lamps with wicks dipped in oil, and true religious solidarity is felt in an all-encompassing mood of cheerfulness and joy.
  • Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  • A young lady dressed in an astrachan-edged jacket and with a face of diminished cheerfulness marched from Chelsea to Love and Mr Lewisham
  • My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare, and endeavoured, by dwelling on these subjects so interesting to my heart, to raise my desponding spirits; but he soon felt that a prison cannot be the abode of cheerfulness. Chapter 4
  • Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  • The Young Girl was full of enthusiasm; she is one of those young persons, I think, who are impressible, and of necessity depressible when their nervous systems are overtasked, but elastic, recovering easily from mental worries and fatigues, and only wanting a little change of their conditions to get back their bloom and cheerfulness. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
  • With Cornelius, in fact, it was nothing less than the joy which Dante apprehended in the blessed spirits of the perfect, the outward semblance of which, like a reflex of physical light upon human faces from "the land which is very far off," we may trace from Giotto onward to its consummation in the work of Raphael -- the serenity, the [53] durable cheerfulness, of those who have been indeed delivered from death, and of which the utmost degree of that famed "blitheness" of the Greeks had been but a transitory gleam, as in careless and wholly superficial youth. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
  • Cheerfulness and goodwill make labour light. 
  • Mostly he was forgiven the corniness of his material because of the unquenchable cheerfulness with which he put it across. Times, Sunday Times
  • His constitutional cheerfulness had been slipping away from him for some time now, thanks to the ravages of the germ of dissatisfaction; but on this occasion he was absolutely dumpish. Warner and Wife
  • We felt a great security while he was guiding our destinies, and worked on in cheerfulness and in hope. A Memorial Discourse on the Character of Abraham Lincoln
  • Still, he speculated wistfully that his newfound cheerfulness was not his authentic self, which he described as brooding and creative. NYT > Home Page
  • A imee Mann wrote this in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago: Paul McCartney's relentless cheerfulness is depressing. Is That Legal?: June 2007 Archives
  • Everyone on the team demonstrated an unfailing cheerfulness that served us well.
  • May everything beautiful and best be condensed into this card. I sincerely wish you happiness, cheerfulness and success.
  • I remember this extraordinary man with particular affection for his unfailing cheerfulness.
  • One enjoyment was certain - that of suitableness as companions; a suitableness which comprehended health and temper to bear inconveniences - cheerfulness to enhance every pleasure - and affection and intelligence, which might supply it among themselves if there were disappointments abroad.
  • On a moderate level of intensity, such feelings would amount to what is usually categorized as cheerfulness.
  • “You mistake the matter entirely, my dear Mrs. Blower,” said the Doctor; “there is nothing serious intended — a mere placebo — just a divertisement to cheer the spirits, and assist the effect of the waters — cheerfulness is a great promoter of health.” Saint Ronan's Well
  • It was intended for that sort of negus which is offered at Christmas parties and of which ladies and children may partake with refreshment and cheerfulness. The Kickleburys on the Rhine
  • The last thing one hears of her, she is tripping up stairs to bed, talking lightsomely or warbling; and one meets her in the morning, the very image of bright morn itself, smiling briskly at you, so that one takes her for a promise of cheerfulness through the day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
  • But Vera's chirpy cheerfulness cannot disguise the seriousness of her vocation.
  • The good is given many names, amongst them euthymia or cheerfulness, as well as privative terms, e.g. for the absence of fear.
  • Our evenings were such as hallow and make the luxury of cottage life -- evenings yielded up to cheerfulness, to content and harmony. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story
  • May everything beautiful and best be condensed into this card. I sincerely wish you happiness, cheerfulness and success.
  • This cheerfulness is the opposite of the marvellous “naivete” of the older Greeks, which we must see, in accordance with its given characteristics, as the flowering of Apollonian culture, blossoming out of a dark abyss, as the victory over suffering and the wisdom of suffering, which the Hellenic will gains through its ability to mirror beauty.’ Nietzsche the Pantheist? | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • Page view page image: annoyances, winding up with the resolute persistency of the clerk at the stage-office to enter my name misspelt on the way-bill, had not predisposed me to cheerfulness. The luck of Roaring Camp, and other sketches
  • Despite being restricted to a wheelchair he retains his cheerfulness and was always at Hove when Sussex played Warwickshire.
  • Cheerfulness may be said to be a lubricant of the mechanism of interindividual life, especial1y the intimate relationships of the family. Cheerfulness (A psychosynthesis technique), by Roberto Assagioli
  • A woman, perhaps fifty, but looking younger, with a face remarkable for placid cheerfulness, and a manner no less remarkable for its quiet expression of equability of temper. No Thoroughfare
  • It was remarkable that he spoke this with great composedness and seeming cheerfulness. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
  • In consequence of such possibilities of irrigation, the valley is green with irrigated grass and barley, and villages with flat roofs scattered among the crops, or perched on the spurs of flame-coloured mountains, give it a wild cheerfulness. Among the Tibetans
  • Just in the course of that one scene, he managed to show that Stacey never calls anyone by their name (she says “the big guy” in lieu of “Chewbacca”), and I loved Han’s inner monologue about how her cheerfulness is even more annoying than Luke’s. News: Pink Five Cameos In New Star Wars Novel | Fan Cinema Today
  • I hate the hostesses' false cheerfulness and plastic smiles.
  • Cheerfulness and goodwill make labour light. 
  • A radiant cheerfulness is something akin to Christlikeness, it is an inspiration. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
  • She alternated between cheerfulness and deep despair.
  • Like Frey, his enemy throughout the recovery process is not the cheerless environment of rehab, but the moronic cheerfulness of recovery sloganeering.
  • I specially like her cheerfulness and good humor.
  • A number of infinitesimal annoyances, winding up with the resolute persistency of the clerk at the stage office to enter my name misspelt on the waybill, had not predisposed me to cheerfulness. Selected Stories of Bret Harte
  • His mother looked at him across the supper table and was pleased to see the renewal of cheerfulness, and then, motherlike, sighed to think that The Lovely Lady
  • an assumed cheerfulness
  • Interestingly, while the former quality is other-directed and the latter is self-directed, their concurrence appears convincing if underpinned by cheerfulness - an emotion that serves both the self and others.
  • May everything beautiful and best be condensed into this card. I sincerely wish you happiness, cheerfulness and success.
  • ‘Up here, I think,’ Peggy called to him, glancing back with a sudden grin that reminded him instantly of her infectious cheerfulness in that heavy brick schoolroom.
  • As such it is effective in changing symptoms of depression and despondency to those of cheerfulness and hopefulness.
  • Their cheerfulness seemed rather strained and artificial.
  • Within the meditative tradition, cheerfulness is considered to be the natural, harmonious and wholesome expression of our truest self.
  • I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage and good will.
  • But there was no bounce and cheerfulness in her voice like there used to be.
  • Whatever it is, they say it hundreds of times an hour with endless patience and cheerfulness.
  • Cheerfulness doesn't always imply happiness.
  • And her heart seems a perennial spring of affectionate cheerfulness: no trial can break, no sorrow chill, her flow of spirits; even her sighs are breathed forth in a wrappage of innocent mirth; an arch, roguish smile irradiates her saddest tears. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
  • He did not again relapse into his former stupor, but it was very long before he regained his usual cheerfulness. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
  • What is your strongest trait ? Helpfulness and caring . Adaptability and sense of humor . Cheerfulness and friendliness.
  • This is said with no self-pity at all: she has a horror of self-pity, of neediness and of anger – and especially, and always, of the thing they can lead to, proper depression – and that horror can tip into a slightly manic sort of cheerfulness. The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran
  • A number of infinitesimal annoyances, winding up with the resolute persistency of the clerk at the stage office to enter my name misspelt on the way-bill, had not predisposed me to cheerfulness. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
  • He was sure the cheerfulness would end when they got into combat, Swift had been a desk jobber until now, sorting Company papers.
  • his cheerfulness made everyone feel better

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