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Quote by Joseph Addison
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. – Joseph Addison

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. – Joseph Addison

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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. – Joseph Addison

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We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness. – Author Unknown

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When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Thank God, all you who have a spark of rational piety in your hearts, for the glorious commonplace of earth and sky,—for this cloud-embosomed planet in which you pass your lives. – William Smith, Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil, 1862

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The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. – Willa Sibert Cather

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What is art? Nature concentrated. – Honore de Balzac

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No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. – James Larkin

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – St. Augustine

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My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. – Kyle Chandler

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