Full oft have letters caused the writers
To curse the day they were inditers. [ Butler ]
The art of praising caused the art of pleasing. [ Voltaire ]
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [ Plautus ]
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall. [ Bacon ]
Anger is many times more hurtful than the injury that caused it. [ Proverb ]
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [ Louis XIV ]
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink. [ Judge Coleridge ]
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed. [ Joubert ]
Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery; enough hath never caused misery but often quickened happiness. [ Tupper ]
The effect of good music is not caused by its novelty. On the contraiy, it strikes us more the more we are familiar with it. [ Goethe ]
Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crash of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment and undermine security. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The want of a more copious diction, to borrow a figure from Locke, is caused by our supposing that the mind is like Fortunatus's purse, and will always supply our wants, with out our ever putting anything into it. [ Bovee ]
I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. [ Beecher ]
Pale, Pallid, or Wan? All these terms denote an absence of color, but vary in degree, pallid rising upon pale, and wan upon pallid. Paleness in the countenance may be temporary, but pallidness and wanness are caused by sickness, hunger, or fatigue, and are of longer duration. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. [ William Shakespeare ]
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs. [ Beecher ]