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.

Quote by Joseph Addison

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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about...

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about...

The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but...

The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but...

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor,...

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor,...

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something...

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something...

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes...

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes...

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense,...

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense,...

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions...

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions...

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily...

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily...

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of...

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of...

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to...

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to...