Mirth Quotes
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
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The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.
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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
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Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
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Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
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How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.
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I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.
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Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
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With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.
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There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
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Feeding off each other, magnified by the knowledge that the laughter was so inappropriate, their mirth was uncontrollable.
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Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.
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There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.
