"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Edison, Thomas A. on Genius
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"There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things."

Unknown, Source on Cheerfulness
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"Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world."

Unknown, Source on Cheerfulness
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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

Butler, Samuel on Cheerfulness
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"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation."

Sheldon, W. H. on Cheerfulness
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"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Cheerfulness
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"The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there."

James, William on Cheerfulness
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"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Cheerfulness
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"I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness."

Dickens, Charles on Cheerfulness
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"Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A determination to be of good cheer can help us and those around us to enjoy life more fully."

Winder, Barbara W. on Cheerfulness
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"Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness"

Unknown, Source on Cheerfulness
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"Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline."

Whipple, Edwin P. on Cheerfulness
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"It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."

Mccullers, Carson on Nostalgia
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"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."

Baudelaire, Charles on Genius
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"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on Cheerfulness
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