 | James Henry Potts - Philosophy and religion - 1889 - 806 pages
...ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence." A CHEERFUL HOME. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. So Addison believed, and if this saying has special application anywhere, it is in domestic life. A... | |
 | Mormons - 1889 - 496 pages
...of her in the various situations in her life. A cheerful tempered woman ; for that, as Addison says, "joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured." One who can be "patient in affliction, brave in danger, and humble in peace and prosperity." Sincere... | |
 | Charles Northend - Maxims - 1890 - 224 pages
...stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death! —Mrs. ffemans. 82. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and, wit good natured.—-Addison. 83. All's for the best! be sanguine and cheerful; Trouble and sorrow are... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving. TEMPER. CHEERFUL. 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,... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1892 - 906 pages
...distress ; But the man whom benevolence warms, Is an augel who lives but to bless. Bloomfield. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. Addiion. My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass, Wherein my imaginations run like sands, Filling... | |
 | Butterick Publishing Company - Beauty, Personal - 1892 - 562 pages
...she be not beautiful. CHAPTER II. MORAL AND MENTAL AIDS TO THE ACQUIREMENT OF BEAUTY. " A cheerful temper joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured." ADDISON. BEAUTY without spiritual fortifications is ephemeral. When its first bloom has faded and there... | |
 | James H. Bryant - English language - 1892 - 244 pages
...God himself can't kill them when they're said . LESSON 33. EXERCISES FOR ANALYSIS. 228. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good natured. — Anon. (221 a.*) Earth is our work-house, and Heaven is, or should be, our store-house.... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last. — Emerson. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. — Addison. CHILDREN. No man can tell but he that loves his children how many delicious accents make... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - Spellers - 1894 - 202 pages
...discontents will disperse. Pore not upon your losses but recount your mercies." LESSON 111. " A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit goodnatured." 38 re fleet' scat'ter dis'si pate oblique' con sid'er dam 'age pri va'tion e num'er ate re peat' be... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - Quotations, English - 1896 - 382 pages
...remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. — LOWELL. A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,...simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable. — ADDISON. Children. — If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole,... | |
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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. 
