Joseph AddisonA collection of 37 posts

Music

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Music

Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Life

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanit...

Legal

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversio...

Learning

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or...

Knowledge

The utmost extent of man's knowledge is to know that he knows nothing.

Imagination

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination because...

Hope

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess we act and think in vain and ...

Happiness

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

Happiness

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something ...