 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, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such...  The popular educator - Σελίδα 305των Popular educator - 1872Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 σελίδες
...AirDIT. I HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the 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... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 σελίδες
...Mirth. I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act ; the former, as a habit of the 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... | |
 | John Todd - 1853 - 302 σελίδες
...have always," says he, " preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient ; cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised to the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 σελίδες
...CHEERFULNESS. — I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The former is an act, the latter, a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient ; cheerfulness, fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the highest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 272 σελίδες
...any depth of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 8. Sincerity is, to speak as we think, to do as... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 σελίδες
..." I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of the 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 depression... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 σελίδες
..." I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of the 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 depression... | |
 | 1854 - 474 σελίδες
...any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 σελίδες
...fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning; that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. 2. The very actions which they have only read I... | |
 | John Todd - 1854 - 306 σελίδες
...depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through the gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." One good method of reformation in wrong habits,... | |
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