“The spirit of fellowship, with its attendant cheerfulness, is in the air.”
"The Peacefulness of Being at War." in The New Republic (11 September 1915), p. 152.
Context: The spirit of fellowship, with its attendant cheerfulness, is in the air. It is comparatively easy to love one's neighbor when we realize that he and we are common servants and common sufferers in the same cause. A deep breath of that spirit has passed into the life of England. No doubt the same thing has happened elsewhere.
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British educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister 1860–1955Related quotes
“A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.”
Source: Proverbs 15:13
“A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.”
From the Dark Chambers of Dejection Freed, l. 13 (1814).
"Remarks on the Character and Writings of Fénelon" (1843)
“Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose,
Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 185.
Philothea http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9982 (1836), p. 51 (in EPUB version)
1830s
“Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming,
Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer.”
Ever of Thee, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Opening lines, Ch. 1, "The River Bank"
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Context: The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
The Monetary Conference of the American Republics (1891)
Context: It is not the form of things that must be attended to but their spirit. The real is what matters, not the apparent. In politics, reality is that which is unseen. Politics is the art of combining a nation’s diverse or opposing factors to the benefit of its domestic well-being, and of saving the country from the open enmity or covetous friendship of other nations.