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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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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. – Joseph Addison

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. – 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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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. – Henry David Thoreau

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I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. – Oscar Wilde

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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. – Anton Chekhov

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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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