 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1878 - 254 pages
...Reasonable men love reason. CHEERFULNESS. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beautv attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured;...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... | |
 | Education - 1880 - 956 pages
...taking of God's name in vain betrays a coarse nature and a brutal will. — £. H. Chafin. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. — Joseph Addison. TOWNSHIP INSTITUTES. The law wisely provides for holding township institutes. Such... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 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... | |
 | Oxford (England) - 1875 - 562 pages
...victory than to overcome himself, no more riches than to enjoy himself. — Bishop Hall. A CHKEBJ?UL temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty, »nd affliction ; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1880 - 280 pages
...the very top. — Dickens. 5. A happy life means prudent compromise. — Mrs. Browning. G. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. — Addison. 7. I believe the first test of a truly great man is himself. — Raskin. S. A wide, rich... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 pages
...above something, but because I raise myself to something do I approve myself. — JACOBI. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and teiultr deformity itself agreeable. — AUDISON. There is always a spot in our sunshine ; it is the... | |
 | 1881 - 406 pages
...and simple; without beauty we are apt to call simplicity awkwardness. — George Eliot. 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,... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1882 - 316 pages
...marked upon their countenance. "A cheerful temper," says Addison, "joined with innocence, will always make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable." How invaluable, therefore, it must be to cultivate it, and in every possible way to aid its growth... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...all the low wind hardly breathed for fear. A. TENNYSON— (fodiva. Line 53. CHEERFULNESS. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. i. ADDISON— The Tattler. No. 192, Cheerfulness is on offshoot of goodness And of wisdom. j. BOVBE—... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...low wind hardly breathed for fear. Л. TENNYSON— Godiva. Line 63. CHEERFULNESS. A cheerful tamper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. i. ADDISON -The Tattler. No. 192, Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom, j. BOVKE—... | |
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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. 
