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

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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Patience
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his countrys ruin! – Joseph Addison

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Revolution
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison

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Business
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Other Quotes from
Sky & Clouds
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Gray skies are just clouds passing over. – Author Unknown

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Sky & Clouds

Sunbeams joy-pierce clouds. – Terri Guillemets, “Rays of happiness,” 2011

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Sky & Clouds

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon. – Willa Sibert Cather

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Sky & Clouds

…gorgeous bright blue sky with some cloudacious beautiness on the fringe… – Terri Guillemets, “Out the Upper Window,” 2009

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Sky & Clouds

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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen

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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. – Jos

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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. – Mao Zedong

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Im getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow. – Christina Ricci

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