optimist

A MAN who had experienced the favours of fortune and was an Optimist, met a man who had experienced an optimist and was a Cynic.

The reinsurer, the optimist of ill-luck and disaster, slaps his pocket with satisfaction.

"The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something -- the mortality of the optimist."

John, I knew, had a horror of any kind of publicity, and was an easygoing optimist, who preferred never to meet trouble half-way.

Yet he was an optimist. He was always gleeful and laughing.

"After all," she said, "you know that I am a professional optimist, and I have faith in my luck.

"Don't you think that, if I had not been the optimist I am, I could not have found in fifteen years some means to cut my throat?

Nevertheless, the doctor, who was less of an optimist, let out as much rope as he could, so as to escape these pitiless insects, that began to rise toward him with a threatening hum.

They were paralyzed with fear, and first of all he played his role of the big vital optimist. Times were improving.

"Alas, my stalwart friend, I fear that you are by nature an optimist! I am not a betting man, but I am prepared to bet you a hundred pounds to one that you have made your last communication with the outside world until I say the word."

Every woman not so much a rake at heart, as an optimist, because they don't think.' What do you say, Rachel?" He paused with his pencil in his hand and a sheet of paper on his knee.

He derived the ideas, in fragmentary fashion, from Bolingbroke, who was an amateur Deist and optimist of the shallow eighteenth century type, and so far was Pope from understanding what he was doing that he was greatly disturbed when it was pointed out to him that the theology of the poem was Deistic rather than Christian [Footnote: The name Deist was applied rather generally in the eighteenth century to all persons who did not belong to some recognized Christian denomination.