There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck.


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'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
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It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
ADDISON WALKER
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON
Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON
If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The plan is when I go to college I plan on taking four years off. School is definitely my priority n...
ADDISON PHILLIPS
I definitely want to do this for the rest of my life, whether I do it professionally or just for fun...
ADDISON PHILLIPS
It's definitely been a great learning experience. This is about as hard as some of the courses are g...
ADDISON PHILLIPS
It's been fun. When I do well it's so rewarding because I'm in here with all the professionals and I...
ADDISON PHILLIPS
Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.
ADDISON MIZNER
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
ADDISON MIZNER
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it
ADDISON MIZNER
Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit
ADDISON MIZNER
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate
ADDISON MIZNER
The market is reacting to worries over supplies during the coming driving season.
ADDISON ARMSTRONG
We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on pr...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG
That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put do...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG
That was a shocking gasoline build.
ADDISON ARMSTRONG
Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG
I think we're still in a very headline-driven market and the geopolitical concerns are going to cont...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above anothe...
JOSEPH ADDISON
There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somethi...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somet...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has s...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
JOSEPH ADDISON
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is...
ADDISON MOORE
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
ADDISON MIZNER
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
ADDISON MIZNER
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Poets are born, not paid.
ADDISON MIZNER
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and sereni...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants...
JOSEPH ADDISON
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most se...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of ma...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own s...
JOSEPH ADDISON
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusemen...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will rende...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
JOSEPH ADDISON
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are oft...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
JOSEPH ADDISON
'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more livel...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recen...
JOSEPH ADDISON
As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
JOSEPH ADDISON