Eivind · @eivind
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I keep a Euro coin from the Fenno-Swedish cock-and-balls era in my pocket that I like to take out and look at during the day to put a smile on my face.

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WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
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A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1608):

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And know, reader, that an ounce of mirth, with the same degree of grace, will serve God farther than a pound of sadness.
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WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
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A quotation from Wordsworth, William:

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A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
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WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
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A quotation from Addison, Joseph:

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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.
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A quotation from Child, Lydia Marie:

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Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.
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WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
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A quotation from Addison, Joseph:

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I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulnes…
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