"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in……" — Joseph Addison
"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity"
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324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison has 324 quotes on this site.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
— Joseph Addison
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's…
— Joseph Addison
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.
— Grenville Kleiser
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Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear…
— Michel de Montaigne
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