Accounts Quotes - Page 5
If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.
Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.264
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.25, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.316, Harvard University Press
"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 191, 1856.
Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature”, p.4
There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.
"American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.
Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.
Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.
But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.271, Vintage
Josephine Tey (1995). “The Daughter of Time”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
1865 Auguste Comte and Positivism.
John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.21, Penguin