Quote Genre: Cause

Claude Frederic Bastiat – ‘The worst thing that can hap…

‘The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked but to be ineptly defended.’

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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce – ‘EFFECT n. The second of two …

‘EFFECT n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first called a Cause is said to generate the other which is no more sensible than it would be … to declare the rabbit … Continue reading →

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Thomas Paine – ‘It is not a field of a few a…

‘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.’

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Aesop – ‘Slow and steady wins the rac…

‘Slow and steady wins the race.’

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Alfred Adler – ‘The chief danger in life is …

‘The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.’

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Joseph Addison – ‘If you wish success in life …

‘If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.’

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William P. Merrill DD – ‘Respectable men and women co…

‘Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you havent even begun to live.’

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Herman Melville – ‘We cannot live only for ours…

‘We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers as sympathetic threads our actions run as causes and they come back to us as effects.’

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Publilius Syrus – ‘It is a good thing to learn …

‘It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.’

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Abraham Lincoln – ‘The probability that we may …

‘The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.’

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