Proverbs 17:22

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A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.

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A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

A man's spirit will endure sickness; but a broken spirit who can bear?

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.

so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”