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“To all facts there are laws,
The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes 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.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (IV, 287)
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“Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.”
Alexander Pope Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (King Henry at V, i)
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“Mine's not an idle cause.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.]”
Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) Quotes 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.”
Wilhelm Stekel Quotes |
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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.”
William P. Merrill Quotes |
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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.”
Guizot Quotes |
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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.”
William James Quotes |
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“No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.”
John W. Scoville Quotes |
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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.”
Thomas Paine Quotes |
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“Men are blind in their own cause.”
Neywood Broun Quotes |
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“The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.”
Ed Howe Quotes |
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“If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.”
Wendell Phillips Quotes |
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“A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.”
Thomas Paine Quotes |
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“Great causes and little men go ill together.”
Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes |
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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.”
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
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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.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”
--julius Caesar Quotes |
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