--BLAIR.
You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why
not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? You will
find half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say
anything gloomy.--MRS. L.M. CHILD.
Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come
in contact with it.--J.T. FIELDS.
The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exercise and our
minds at ease.--STEELE.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to
bear are those which never happen.--LOWELL.
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,
knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness,
poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity,
and render deformity itself agreeable.--ADDISON.
CHILDREN.--If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that
which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love
of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude
to one who has this possession.--T.W. HIGGINSON.
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they,
who are so fresh from God, love us.--DICKENS.
They are idols of hearts and of households;
They are angels of God in disguise;
His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses;
His glory still gleams in their eyes.
Oh those truants from home and from heaven,
They have made me more manly and mild,
And I know now how Jesus could liken
The kingdom of God to a child.
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