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optimism

«Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.»
«Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.»
«Optimism is the foundation of courage.»
«Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality»
«No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.»
«Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
«OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
«Optimism is a kind of heart stimulus, the digitalis of failure.»
«Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant- the digitalis of failure»
«Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.»

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