 | Joseph Addison - 1888 - 548 pages
...at least to cultivate and improve. These, in my opinion, are cheerfulness and constancy. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. are embarked with them for life in the same state of happiness or misery. Constancy, when it grows... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 214 pages
...natural gift, it must be planted and watered by God in the soil of a regenerated nature. A CHEERFUL TEMPER, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and make deformity itself agreeable. LAUGHTER. — God made tears and laughter, and both for kind Tioses... | |
 | Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...distress; But the man whom benevolence warms, Is an angel who lives but to bless. Bloomfidd. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...sickness, poverty and affliction ; convert ignorance into ail amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. A'idison. My brain, methinks, is like... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1874 - 378 pages
...fiction ; Monk Lewis had his monitor, and Bonaparte many warnings. CHARM OF GOOD TEMPER. A cheerful temper, joined, with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. SUGGESTIONS TO THE NEWLY-MARRIED. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom ; and the breath of... | |
 | Christian text-book - 1874 - 808 pages
...God — His word believe, Then shall thy soul eternal life receive. Anon. REFLECTIONS. Д CHEERFUL temper, joined with innocence, will make '*"*' beauty...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. — ADDISON. totcberj man tttetlj, ljfáerpectattt antt tlje Jope of unjuát men jertîiljîtlj.—... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - Readers - 1875 - 348 pages
...are wrong; you are always wrong when you appeal to your thunder." Erskine. CHEERFULNESS. A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive,...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. Joseph. Addiaon. BE INDUSTRIOUS. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...and moderation of our words and actions. SIR R. STEELE : Spectator, No. 104. GOOD-HUMOUR. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. . ADDISON. Honest good-humour is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - American literature - 1876 - 168 pages
...the letters of the word CLIO. EXTRACTS. L A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beautj attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured....simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. IL 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we '11 do more, Sempronius ; we '11 deserve it. Cato.... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1878 - 254 pages
...impression on those who are not themselves angry. Reaspnable men love reason. CHEERFULNESS. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. CONSTANCY IN VIRTUE. The bird let loose in Eastern skies, When hastening fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...every day is the best day in the year. JR. W. Emerson, Mass., 1803—. 68. Cheerfulness. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. Jos. Addison, Kngland, 1673-1719. 69. Family Courtesy. Family intimacy should never make brothers and... | |
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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. 
