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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

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. – Joseph Addison

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Wisdom
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Sky & Clouds
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sky & Clouds

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 sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. – Pamela Hansford Johnson

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Sky & Clouds

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Instead of deadlines and dread, my home now smells like strawberry-apple bread and joy. I should bake more often. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. – Armstrong Williams

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We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Pulvis et umbra,” 1888

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Miscellaneous

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. – William Griffith Wilson

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Attitude