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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 7, 2025

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. 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.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381

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Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381 - Addison, Joseph | WIST Quotations

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Carmelite Quotes Nov 4, 2024

Whatever the troubles and difficulties that weigh you down, bear them all patiently and keep in mind that these are the things which constitute your cross. Offer your help to the Lord and carry the cross with him in gladness of heart.

There is always something to be endured, and if you refuse one cross, be sure that you will meet with another, and maybe a heavier one. If we trust in God and rely on his help, we shall overcome the allurements of vice.

We must never let our efforts flag nor our steps grow weary, but must keep our hearts under steady discipline.

Blessed Frances d’Amboise

From the Exhortations of Blessed Frances d’Amboise to her nuns

Book of Hours
Said to have been made for, and the inscription on the second flyleaf states the book was used by Françoise d’Amboise
France, Brittany, ca. 1465
MS M.84 fol. 58r
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York

Catholic Church 1993, Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Order of Discalced Carmelites (Rev. and augm.), Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome.

Featured image: This portrait of Blessed Frances d’Amboise (Françoise d’Amboise) is an oil on canvas painting by an anonymous 17th-century French artist. It comes from the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes. Photo credit: © Jean-Manuel Salingue / Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Joconde)

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WIST Quotations moves again!Apr 24, 2024

A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1654):

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Since Joys are so uncertain; take Gladness when it comes.
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Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 101 (1725) - Fuller, Thomas (1654) | WIST Quotations

Since Joys are so uncertain; take Gladness when it comes.

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WIST Quotations moves again!Nov 28, 2023

A quotation from Bible, vol. 1, Old Testament:

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I shall change their mourning into gladness, comfort them, give them joy after their troubles.
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Jeremiah 31:13 [NJB (1985)] - Bible, vol. 1, Old Testament | WIST Quotations

I shall change their mourning into gladness, comfort them, give them joy after their troubles. Alternate translations: For I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. [KJV (1611)] I will comfort them and turn their mourning into joy, their sorrow…

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