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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

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. – Joseph Addison

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Nature
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Joseph Addison
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A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

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Censorship
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Other Quotes from
Sky & Clouds
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Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon. – Robin Williams

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Sky & Clouds

The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. – Christopher Fry

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Sky & Clouds

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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Sky & Clouds

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. – William Gibson

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Sky & Clouds

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A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. – Douglas Pagels

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There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. – Stephen Covey

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