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by Orson Sweat Martin, published in 1913.

An optimistic mind is a prism that brings the rainbow colors out of things which are invisible to the pessimist.

The prism does not make the colors in the spectrum. They are everywhere

in the light before our eyes. The light is made up of all the different colors of the

rainbow. The prism merely separates them and makes them visible to the eye. Every person should have an optimistic lens which can distinguish the uncommon in the common,

which can detect all the beauties there are in their environment.

It is wicked to go about among your fellow citizens with a face which indicates that life has been a disappointment

to you, instead of a glorious joy.

What a pitiable thing to see people go through life-pedaling vinegar, radiating bitterness,

finding fault, and seeing only the ugly, the worrying, the fretting, cynical, and pessimistic.

Some people have a genius for seeing only the crooked, evil and disagreeable.

Pessimism is always a destroyer, never a producer.

We need more joy peddlers and sunshine makers, more people who refuse to see the ugly,

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