tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post3496730388315199377..comments2024-03-28T11:28:31.364-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Strong in His Cheerfulness'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-17088263551456772392012-10-26T14:21:46.830-05:002012-10-26T14:21:46.830-05:00The phrase of Edwards has found its way into pop c...The phrase of Edwards has found its way into pop culture via Leonard Cohen, who gets the provenance quite wrong:<br /><br />The troubadour of gloom continues: "I think those descriptions of me are quite inappropriate to the gravity of the predicament that faces us all. I've always been free from hope. It's never been one of my great solaces. I feel that more and more we're invited to make ourselves strong and cheerful." This graduate of McGill University adds: "I think that it was Ben Jonson who said, I have studied all the theologies and all the philosophies, but cheerfulness keeps breaking through."<br /><br />From "The Joking Troubadour of Gloom," Daily Telegraph, April 26, 1993.Finn MacCoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05432695149915870818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-85509116954685171962012-10-11T13:12:43.778-05:002012-10-11T13:12:43.778-05:00From Wittgenstein's war diaries:
"Do you...From Wittgenstein's war diaries:<br /><br />"Do your best. You cannot do more. And be cheerful. Be content with yourself. Because others will not prop you up or at most only for a short time (then you will become burdensome to them). Help yourself and help others with all your strength. And at the same time be cheerful."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com