"Bright side" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an author's life is more agitated and more painful than that of others, it may also be made more spirit-stirring and exalted: fortune may render him unhappy; it is only himself that can make him despicable. The history of genius has, in fact, its bright side as well as its dark. And if it is distressing to survey the misery, and what is worse, the debasement of so many gifted men, it is doubly cheering on the other hand to reflect on the few, who, amid the temptations and sorrows to which life in all its provinces and most in theirs is liable, ...
— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle
... happy that morning. The past few days had taught him the bright side of canoeing, and he fondly hoped to find the future just as ...
— Canoe Boys and Campfires - Adventures on Winding Waters • William Murray Graydon
... think so!" answered Robin, cheerily. "We're all tired, and can't look on the bright side! Sound sleep is the best cure for ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... are heavy, and the morning's sharp with cold; Now the garden's at its gayest with the salvia blazing red And the good old-fashioned asters laughing at us from their bed; Once again in shoes and stockings are the children's little feet, And the dog now does his snoozing on the bright side ...
— A Heap o' Livin' • Edgar A. Guest
... exhibitions is, that it displays only the bright side of militarism. If in place of the Russian battleships they should display the starving masses of dejected and despised beings who pay for those battleships; if in place of the gay German uniforms they should exhibit ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association
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