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To everything there is a bright side and a dark side and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.

Lydia M. Child

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Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
Activist
Geologist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
Might
Side
Cherish
Everything
Sides
Sunshine
Looking
Bright
Unwise
Dark
Landscape
Unkind
Spiritual
Atmosphere
Cheerfulness
Others
Main
Resolved
Form
Habit
Unhealthy
Soul
Hold
Earthly

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