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«The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.»
«Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
account, came, whence
«The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
accomplices, account, austere, heartless, injustice, innocent, performance, sacrifices, self-discipline, self-disciplined, take account, The Accomplice, The God, the self, victims, vigilance
«When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Bankers and banks,
Funny,
Money
| Keywords:
account, bank, bank account, photographic, positively, steps
«Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
account, account for, attractiveness, curious, invented, myth, take account, take into account, wickedness
«We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.»
«These two chapters (Genesis 1 and 2), instead of containing, as has been believed, one continuous account of the creation, written by Moses, contain two different and contradictory stories of a creation, made by two different persons, and written in»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
account, account of the creation, chapters, contain, containing, continuous, contradictories, contradictory, Genesis, Moses, stories, The Creation