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Cheerfulness: Vision And Creativity

Emerson’s celebration of the cheerful sensibility brings the social vision of the moralist together with the creativity of the poet. He suggests not only that cheerfulness links people together in communities, but that he who controls cheerfulness can remake the world. Cheerfulness is a psychological and emotional force, originating in vision and sensibility.

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“An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.” - Thomas A. Edison

A cheery mood, we might think, is a terribly self-absorbed response to serious times. But history tells us otherwise.

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