Cause not a tree to die. [ King of Siam ]
Will is the cause of woe. [ Proverb ]
Report me and my cause aright
To the unsatisfied. [ William Shakespeare ]
He is a lion in a good cause. [ Proverb ]
God hides Himself behind causes. [ Charles Rollin ]
A rotten cause abides no handling. [ William Shakespeare ]
You shall cause to take possession. [ Law Writ ]
Cause not your own dog to bite you. [ Proverb ]
Who can foretell for what high cause
This darling of the gods was born? [ Andrew Marvell ]
I live for those who love me.
For those who know me true,
For the heavens that bend above me.
And await my spirit too;
For the cause that needs assistance.
For the wrongs that lack resistance,
For the future in the distance.
And the good that I can do. [ Thomas Guthrie ]
God befriend us, as our cause is just. [ William Shakespeare ]
Presume to lay their hand upon the ark
Of her magnificent and awful cause. [ Cowper ]
Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter. [ Henry V ]
Plenty of words when the cause is lost. [ Italian Proverb ]
A poor pleader may do in a plain cause. [ Proverb ]
Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we;
For, such as we are made of, such we be. [ William Shakespeare ]
Every one was eloquent in his own cause. [ Ovid ]
The cause of freedom is the cause of God. [ Bowles ]
Thou Great First Cause, least understood. [ Pope ]
Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Of slight beginnings to important ends. [ Davenant ]
The cause is hidden, but the result known. [ Ovid ]
If you grease a cause well, it will stretch. [ Proverb ]
Cause and effect are the chancellors of God. [ Emerson ]
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill;
We may be independent if we will. [ Churchill ]
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause. [ Homer ]
The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink
Together. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Not to understand a treasure's worth,
Till time has stolen away the slightest good,
Is cause of half the poverty we feel,
And makes the world the wilderness it is. [ Cowper ]
A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. [ Victor Hugo ]
He lives in fame, that died in virtue's cause. [ William Shakespeare ]
Love's of a strangely open simple kind,
And thinks none sees it 'cause itself is blind. [ Cowley ]
In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels men rebel;
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the Eternal cause. [ Pope ]
He that has the worst cause makes the most noise. [ Proverb ]
It is a bad cause indeed that none dares speak in. [ Proverb ]
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]
Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [ La Bruyere ]
A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm. [ Proverb ]
Oh! if there be, on this earthly sphere,
A boon, an offering heaven holds dear,
'Tis the last libation Liberty draws
From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause. [ Moore ]
Tenterden steeple was the cause of Goodwin's sands. [ Proverb ]
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment. [ Burke ]
To all facts there are laws,
The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause. [ Lord Lytton ]
Men are the cause of women's dislike for each other. [ La Bruyere ]
Contempt will cause Spite to drink of her own poison. [ Proverb ]
Lidford Jaw; first hang and draw, then hear the cause. [ Proverb ]
Hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear. [ William Shakespeare ]
The cause of our grandeur may become that of our ruin. [ Arnault ]
It is a sign of an ill cause to rail at your adversary. [ Proverb ]
Friends got without desert, will be lost without cause. [ Proverb ]
Nature is but a name for an effect, whose cause is God. [ Cowper ]
Idleness is both a great sin, and the cause of many more. [ South ]
We easily hate those whom we have given cause to hate us. [ Mme. de Lussan ]
It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr. [ Napoleon I ]
I would seek unto God and unto God would I commit my cause. [ Bible ]
What better cause than liberty is there all over the world! [ Franeillon ]
One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to cause regret. [ Gavarni ]
We should be above jealousy when there is real cause for it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world. [ Epictetus ]
The cause of liberty is one and the same all over the world. [ George Thompson ]
A good cause and a good tongue, and yet money must carry it. [ Proverb ]
In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes. [ Caesar ]
Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. [ Joseph Hopkinson ]
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [ Virgil ]
It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. [ Seneca ]
To live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. [ Hooker ]
An indifferent agreement, is better than carrying a cause at law. [ Proverb ]
He that is angry without a cause, must be pleased without amends. [ Proverb ]
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. [ Voltaire ]
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader. [ Arthur Helps ]
I am not only witty myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. [ William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II Act I Sc. 2 ]
Silence is a good receipt against such faults as may cause offense. [ Proverb ]
He who is the cause of his own misfortunes may bewail them himself. [ Italian Proverb ]
Necessity rouses from sloth, and despair is often the cause of hope. [ Rufus ]
Shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He that shews his wealth to a thief is the cause of his own pillage. [ Proverb ]
These things are at once the cause and food of this delicious malady. [ Ovid ]
'Cause I'se wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. [ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]
The only conquests that cause no regrets, are those made over ignorance. [ Napoleon I ]
God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest cause. [ Southern ]
In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. [ Milton ]
It is not the suffering, but the cause and the patience that makes a martyr. [ Proverb ]
The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. [ Kossuth ]
That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. [ Lowell ]
The cause of a friend, a destitute and an exemplary cause, we ought to defend. [ Thrasea ]
The better you understand yourself, the less cause you will find to love yourself. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Impatience is the principal cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances. [ Sterne ]
If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone." [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of everything beautiful. [ Plato ]
In that corroding secrecy which gnaws the heart to show the effect, but not the cause. [ Byron ]
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little. [ Swift ]
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. [ Goethe ]
Two sorts of writers possess genius; those who think, and those who cause others to think. [ J. Roux ]
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. [ Burke ]
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within bounds, but pushed to excess they cause offence. [ Phaedr ]
Between good sense and good taste, there is the same difference as that between cause and effect. [ La Bruyère ]
It becomes extremely hard to disentangle our idea of the cause from the effect by which we know it. [ Burke ]
When a man is conscious that he does no good himself, the next thing is to cause others to do some. [ Pope ]
Every effect doth, after a sort, contain, or at least resemble, the cause from which it proceedeth. [ Hooker ]
All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh. [ Voltaire ]
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain. [ Colton ]
Those who first study fate, and say, Fate is the only cause of fortune and misfortune, terrify themselves. [ Hitopadesa ]
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. [ Wieland ]
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk. [ Cicero ]
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. [ Tillotson ]
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord. [ Bible ]
He has lost his arms and deserted the cause of virtue who is ever eager and engrossed in increasing his wealth. [ Horace ]
One cause of the insufficiency of riches (to produce happiness) is, that they very seldom make their owner rich. [ Johnson ]
We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others. [ Dewey ]
A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure. [ Dryden ]
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. [ Bulwer ]
No man is either worthy of a good home here or a heaven hereafter that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause. [ Capt. John Brown ]
A storm at sea, a vine-wasting hail tempest, a disappointing farm, cause no anxiety to him who is content with enough. [ Horace ]
The crudest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. [ Emerson ]
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its Cause. [ Beecher ]
The mind is the master over every kind of fortune: itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery. [ Seneca ]
No man is justified in resisting by word or deed the authority he lives under for a light cause, be such authority what it may. [ Carlyle ]
If judges would make their decisions just, they should behold neither plaintiff, defendant, nor pleader, but only the cause itself. [ Livingston ]
God pardon them that are the cause thereof! A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion, to pray for them that have done scath to us. [ William Shakespeare ]
When one seeks the cause of the successes of great generals, one is astonished to find that they did everything necessary to insure them. [ Napoleon I ]
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. [ Hazlitt ]
Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one. [ Feltham ]
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. [ Addison ]
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture. [ Colton ]
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God. [ Jeremy Bentham ]
A principle fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. [ Lord Bacon ]
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it iodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink together; dwarfed or godlike, bond or free; if she be small, slight-natured, miserable, how shall men grow? [ Tennyson ]
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable. [ Joseph Roux ]
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Yet even this hath this inconvenience in it - that it makes its possessor neglect the furnishing of the mind with nobleness. Nay, it oftentimes is a cause that the mind is ill. [ Feltham ]
How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike! [ Bishop Hall ]
No villainy or flagitious action was ever yet committed but, upon a due inquiry into the cause of it, it will be found that a lie was first or last the principal engine to effect it. [ South ]
Men commonly injure one another without cause, and simply to do something: as an idle promenader in a garden, breaks the young branches, and strips off the leaves of the most beautiful flowers. [ E. Souvestre ]
A thorough miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. [ W. B. Clulow ]
Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. [ Bovee ]
In public affairs, we may usually infer the weakness of the cause by the excessive price that ministers have freely paid to those whose eloquence, or whose sophistry, has enabled them to make that weakness triumph. [ Colton ]
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof if carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung. [ Greville ]
The common cause of waves is the friction of the wind upon the surface of the water; little ridges or elevations first appear, which by continuance of the force gradually increase until they become the rolling mountains seen where the wind sweeps over a great extent of water. [ F. Marryatt ]
Chance is a term we apply to events to denote that they happen without any necessary or foreknown cause. When we say a thing happens by chance, we mean no more than that its cause is unknown to us, and not, as some vainly imagine, that chance itself can be the cause of anything. [ C. Buck ]
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause. Many of its conclusions, more ingenious than sound, are like the recommendations of a people to keep full bottles, because a good many have been found dead with empty ones by them. [ Bovee ]
Sudden blaze of kindness may, by a single blast of coldness, be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be suppressed by disgust or resentment, with or without cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection. [ Johnson ]
How often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies. [ Henry Melville ]
Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew. [ Keats ]
It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. [ Adam Clarke ]
Anxiety is the poison of human life. It is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, where you may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, what means this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? [ Blair ]
Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. [ Bishop Hall ]
Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. [ Swift ]
After having said, read, and written what we have of women, what is the fact? In good faith, it is this: they are handsomer, more amiable, more essential, more worthy, and have more sensibility than we. All the faults that we reproach in them do not cause as much evil as one of ours. And, then, are their faults not due to our despotism, injustice, and self-love? [ Prince de Ligne ]
If there were no readers there certainly would be no writers. Clearly, therefore, the existence of writers depends upon the existence of readers; and, of course, as the cause must be antecedent to the effect, readers existed before writers. Yet, on the other hand, if there were no writers there could be no readers, so it should appear that writers must be antecedent to readers. [ Paul Chatfield, M.D ]
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasn: Nourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies. [ Dr. Chalmers ]
Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters. [ Colton ]
A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]
True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself, it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself, its own integrity and worth. Hope awakens courage, while despondency is the last of all evils, it is the abandonment of good, the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. [ Von Knebel (German), Translated by Mrs. Austin ]