Accident Quotes

• "Accidents will occur in the best regulated families and in families not regulated by that persuading influence which sanctifies while it enhance—I would say, in short, by the influence of Woman in the lofty character of Wife. "
  By: Dickens
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• "Accent is the soul of language : it gives to it both feeling and truth."
  By: Rousseao
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• "How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms."
  By: John Smith (2) ("John Smith of Cambridge"), Select Discourses (vol. III, p. 48)
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• "Moving accidents by flood and field."
  By: William Shakespeare, Othello
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• "I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, ii)
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• "What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. [Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen."
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Fiesco (act II, sc. 4)
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• "Accident is simply unforeseen order."
  By: Novalis (pseudonym of Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg)
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• "Promptly improve your accidents."
  By: Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)
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• "The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate."
  By: Thomas Babington Macaulay
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• "At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. VI)
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• "Nothing with God can be accidental."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "The just season of doing things must, be nicked, and all accidents improved."
  By: Sir Roger L'Estrange
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• "Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]"
  By: Ephraim Gotthold Lessing, Emilia Galotti (IV, 3)
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• "There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skillful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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