Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.
Barbara Holland (1933-2010) American author
Endangered Pleasures (1995)
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It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English churchman, historian
A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine, ii. xi (1650)
A joyful heart helps healing,
but a broken spirit dries up the bones.The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Proverbs 17:22 [CEB (2011)]
Alternate translations:
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
[KJV (1611)]
Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.
[GNT (1976)]
A glad heart is excellent medicine, a depressed spirit wastes the bones away.
[NJB (1985)]
A cheerful heart is a good medicine,
but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.
[NRSV (2021 ed.)]
A joyful heart makes for good health;
Despondency dries up the bones.
[RJPS (2023 ed.)]
