“No one ever injured their eyesight by looking on the bright side of things” is a one-line motivational saying that has been printed on many images. “But few people impair their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things” was published in the Chicago (IL) News in 1898.
     
   
19 July 1898, Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, “Pointed Paragraphs” (Chicago News), pg. 6, col. 7:
But few people impair their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.
 
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15 August 1898, San Francisco (CA) Call, pg. 4, col. 6:
But few people impair their eyesight from looking on the bright side of things.
     
8 September 1906, Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture (Boston, MA), “Gems of Thought,” pg. 7, col. 4:
Few people impair their eyesight by looking at the bright side of things. 
 
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24 November 1916, The Carlisle Arrow, “Arrow Points,” pg. 2, col. 2:
“Few people injure their eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.”   
     
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Smiles
By Marcia Kaplan and David Kaplan
Art by Phil Mendez
Atlanta, GA: Cheers
1982
Pg.?:
No one ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.
 
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The Reader’s Digest
Volume 127, Issues 759-764
1985
Pg. 250:
No one ever ruined his eyesight by looking at the bright side of life. — George E. Bergman in National Enquirer
 
6 March 1986, Evansville (IN) Courier, “Scram-Lets” edited by Clay R. Pollan, pg. 29, col. 4:
My son was unhappy with his performance during a ballgame. “Don’t fret,” counseled his grandpa, “no one ever ruined his eyesight by looking at the BRIGHT side of things.”
 
28 December 1986, Greensboro (NC) News & Record, “Over 50” by Harry Rosenthal, pg. G5, col. 6:
To quote one of Murray Zevon’s lines: “No one ever ruined his eyesight by looking at the bright side of things.”
     
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December 1991, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 82, col. 2:
Pedro says: No one ever ruined his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.
—Martha J. Beckman, Granada Hills, Calif.
 
12 August 1993, The Star-Herald (Kosciusko, MS), “Osteoporosis topic for Best Yet Club,” pg. 12B, col. 3:
Lois Jenkins called the meeting to order with the thought, “no one every injured their eyesight by looking at the bright side of things.
           
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No one ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.
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Life, Etc: Advice for the Real World
By Charley Swayne
New York, NY: Fireside
1996
Pg. 30:
No one ever injured his eyesight by looking at the bright side.
 
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7/31/97
No one ever injured their eyesight by looking on the bright side if things.
 
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2/25/98
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Thought For The Day:
“No one ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.”
 
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Friendship Book
By Francis Gay
D.C. Thomson
2000
Pg.?:
THURSDAY— DECEMBER 13. NO-ONE ever injured their eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.” Isn’t it a pity that the author of such a happy sentiment is unknown to us? I’m sure you’ll agree that he — or she — had exactly the right
 
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March 1, 2014 ·
‘No one ever injured their eyesight by looking on the bright side of things’
 
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Joni Ernst’s Iowa campaign makes quick work of the ‘war on women’
By George F. Will Opinion writer September 26, 2014
URBANDALE, Iowa
The Machine Shed restaurant, where the waitresses wear bib overalls and suggest a cinnamon roll the size of a loaf of bread as a breakfast appetizer, sells a root beer called Dang!, bandages made to look like bacon strips, and signs that proclaim, “I love you more than bacon.” For Joni Ernst, however, the apposite sign reads, “No one ever injured their eyesight by looking on the bright side.”
 
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Under a Painted Sky
By Stacey Lee
New York, NY: Penguin Books
2015
Pg. 173:
“As Isaac always says, no one ever injured an eye by looking at the bright side.”
 
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