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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 most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Diets and Dieting
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Joseph Addison
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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. – Joseph Addison

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Nature
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Joseph Addison
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Other Quotes from
Sky & Clouds
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They are fair resting-places for the dear weary dead on their way up to heaven. – Joaquin Miller (clouds)

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Sky & Clouds

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky…. – Joseph Conrad

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Sky & Clouds

I never get tired of the blue sky. – Vincent van Gogh

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Sky & Clouds

I cannot get that beautiful afternoon out of my head, above me where I lay the grass was silhouetted against the blue of the heavens, small clouds were rushing past as the wind drove them on an endless journey. – Julia Lee-Booker, letter to Pat McSwiney, 1940 July 24

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Sky & Clouds

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So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way. – John Newcombe

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