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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. -- Patti Page
The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. -- Lillie Langtry
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. -- Saadi
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. -- Washington Irving
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness. -- Ossie Davis
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. -- James Broughton
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven. -- Edward Carpenter
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. -- Roberto Benigni
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. -- Roberto Benigni
There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good. -- Orison Swett Marden
It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel confident it will do the same in Pitt, if we faithfully administer the law, and that it will bring gladness and joy into the homes of the people. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart. -- Charles Spurgeon
My heart is filled with gladness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Gratitude is a gladness of soul. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Let the gladness of your soul blossom. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Carols of gladness ring from every tree. -- Fanny Kemble
I work with great gladness for what I want. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness. -- Charles Darwin
An act of kindness blossoms our lives with gladness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. -- Samuel Johnson
The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable. -- Martha Beck
Strew your gladness on earth's bed, So be merry, so be dead. -- Charles Sorley
We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. -- Abraham Lincoln
While beer brings gladness, don't forget That water only makes you wet! -- Harry Leon Wilson
Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, -- George Herbert
The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness. -- Lucy Larcom
Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak. -- William C. Bryant
What a great gladness to welcome a new born baby into the world. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
May the New Year bring you new grace, new gladness and new glory. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again. -- Sam Walter Foss
Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart. -- Rabindranath Tagore
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand. -- Friedrich Schiller
It is a sacred gladness for us to celebrate the holy birth of Jesus Christ. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime. -- Leo Tolstoy
If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it. -- Douglas Wilson
So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world. -- George Eliot
The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God. -- John Piper
Peace and gladness in every home is a peace for the society, nation and the world. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak. -- Ben Jonson
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. -- Jack Gilbert
It is the little act of kindness that touches our heart and blossom our life with gladness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. -- William Wordsworth
Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter. -- Madison Cawein
"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question". -- Stephen R. Donaldson
And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question". -- Stephen R. Donaldson
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling. -- Frederick Buechner
Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness. -- Thomas a Kempis
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus. -- John Calvin
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. -- Bliss Carman
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. -- Frederick Buechner
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. -- Louise Colet
Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours. -- Helen Keller
Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude. -- William Arthur Ward
One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness. -- Walter Hilton
In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness. -- William Wordsworth
Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. -- John Muir
We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death -- Nelson Mandela
What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress. -- Henry David Thoreau
Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists. -- Aidan Chambers
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. -- Ben Jonson
God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples. -- John Piper
I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy. -- Jack Kerouac
No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness. -- L. Whitney Clayton
All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness! -- Lewis Carroll
Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf. -- Dan Simmons
My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement. -- Amy B. Lyman
I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness. -- Adoniram Judson
All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air. -- Helen Hunt
Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty. -- James Freeman Clarke
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields. -- Helen Keller
Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn. -- Friedrich Schiller
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable. -- Khalil Gibran
Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities. -- Smith Wigglesworth
A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life. -- Mark Twain
If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy. -- Francis of Assisi
If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship. -- Marva Dawn
We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness. -- Henri Nouwen
Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness. -- Smokey Robinson
Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise. -- George Crabbe
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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. -- Harry Allen Overstreet
Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep. -- Philip James Bailey
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft. -- Mickey Rooney
Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult to die. To make life is more difficult by far. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments" And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving. -- Scott Hastie
He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness. -- Susanna Wesley
God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after? -- George Santayana

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