"Gladden" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was thoroughly restored, and be labored assiduously at his business, looking forward cheerfully to the time when she should become a mother, and the merry laughter of his children should, in his hours of rest from worldly cares, gladden and enliven their home. ...
— The Mysteries of Montreal - Being Recollections of a Female Physician • Charlotte Fuhrer
... once, in our rapidly written reflections, urged the policy and propriety of kindness, courtesy, and good-will between man and man. It is so easy for an individual to manifest amenity of spirit, to avoid harshness, and thus to cheer and gladden the paths of all over whom he may have influence or control, that it is really surprising to find any one pursuing the very opposite course. Strange as it may appear, there are among the children of men, hundreds who seem to take delight in making others ...
— Friends and Neighbors - or Two Ways of Living in the World • Anonymous
... city he is likely to be lost. It was this declining weight of the individual in the life of great cities, as compared with that of impersonal social organizations, the parties, the unions, and the clubs, that first suggested, perhaps, the propriety of the term social forces. In 1897 Washington Gladden published a volume entitled Social Facts and Forces: the Factory, the Labor Union, the Corporation, the Railway, the City, the Church. The term soon gained wide currency ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... gladden many a mind Awhile from homelier thoughts released, And here my fellow-men may find A ...
— Ionica • William Cory (AKA William Johnson)
... brought a sad smile to his lips. The returning day seemed to gladden his life. Had he ever been like others who rejoiced in existence in the city? Here was where one could ...
— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
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