MERRIMENT
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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.—ADDISON, The Spectator
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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.—Bible, Proverbs 17:22
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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.—BULWER-LYTTON, Kenelm Chillingly
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Vex'd with mirth the drowsy ear of night.—BYRON, Childe Harold
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A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.—DRYDEN, The Secular Masque
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There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight.—JOSEPH HAYDEN, A Hot Time in the Old Town
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And more than wisdom, more than wealth,—
A merry heart that laughs at care.—H. H. MILMAN, The Merry Heart
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Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest, and youthful Jollity,
Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles,
Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles.—MILTON, L'Allegro
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Far from all resort of mirth,
Save the cricket on the hearth.—MILTON, Il Penseroso
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Be always as merry as you can, for no one delights in a sorrowful man.—Proverb
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As merry as a cricket.—Proverb
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Where lives the man that has not tried
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!—SCOTT, The Bridal of Triermain
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'Tis ever common
That men are merriest when they are from home.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
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A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
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As merry as the day is long.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
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From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
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How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
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