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13 Quotes for 'Accident' in the Database.
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Chapter of accidents.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Notes for Speeches (vol. II, p. 426), (1852 edition)
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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. XXVIII)
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To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XIX)
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Our wanton accidents take root, and grow
To vaunt themselves God's laws.
Author: Charles Kingsley
Source: Saint's Tragedy (act II, sc. 4)
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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.]
Author: Ephraim Gotthold Lessing
Source: Emilia Galotti (IV, 3)
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At first laying down, as a fact fundamental,
That nothing with God can be accidental.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. VI)
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By many a happy accident.
Author: Thomas Middleton
Source: No Wit, no Help, like a Women's (act IV, sc. 1)
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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.
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Fiesco (act II, sc. 4)
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I have shot mine arrow o'er the house
And hurt my brother.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, ii)
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Of moving accidents by flood and field.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at I, iii)
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A happy accident.
Author: Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)
Source: L'Allemagne (ch. XVI)
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The accident of an accident.
Author: Lord Edward Thurlow
Source: in a speech in reply to Lord Grafton
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The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.
Author: Lord Edward Thurlow
Source: in a speech in reply to Lord Grafton
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