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To all facts there are laws,
The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto III, st. 8)
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The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
[Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Metamorphoses (IV, 287)
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Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Epilogue to Satires (dialogue 2, l. 205)
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O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart
With pity that doth make me sick.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Iachimo at I, vi)
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Mad let us grant him them, and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect--
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.
Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at II, ii)
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Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
For, on their answer, will we set on them,
And God befriend us as our cause is just!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (King Henry at V, i)
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Mine's not an idle cause.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Brabantio at I, ii)
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Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
[Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: Georgics (II, 490)
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one.
Author: Wilhelm Stekel
Source: None
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Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
Author: William P. Merrill
Source: None
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It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
Author: Guizot
Source: None
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
Author: William James
Source: None
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No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
Author: John W. Scoville
Source: None
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: None
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Men are blind in their own cause.
Author: Neywood Broun
Source: None
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Author: Ed Howe
Source: None
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Author: Wendell Phillips
Source: None
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A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: None
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Source: None
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Source: None
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Author: --julius Caesar
Source: None
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