“ Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 240
“ Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ”
- Lydia M. Child- Copy
- 825
“ To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
- 198
“ Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead. ”
- Charles M. Schwab- Copy
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“ The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty; for we ought to be as bright and genial as we can, if only because to be cheerful ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others. ”
- John Lubbock- Copy
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“ The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures. ”
- Basil W. Maturin- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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