“We are more apt to feel depressed by the perpetually smiling individual than the one who is honestly sad.”
Paulus : Reminiscences of a Friendship (1973)
Context: We are more apt to feel depressed by the perpetually smiling individual than the one who is honestly sad. If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
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“Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.”

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Car en mon cuer porte couvertement
Le dueil qui soit qui plus me puet desplaire,
Et si me fault, pour les gens faire taire,
Rire en plorant et très amerement
De triste cuer chanter joyeusement.
Rondeau "De triste cuer chanter joyeusement", line 8; Maurice Roy (ed.) Œuvres Poétiques de Christine de Pisan (1886) vol. 1, p. 154, as translated by http://www.brindin.com/pfpistri.htm by Sheenagh Pugh.

“Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.”
Remember, l. 13-14.
Source: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: An Anthology

His objective was to convince the Dissenters to join with their fellow countrymen.
Attributed, An Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland by a Northern Whig. (September, 1791)