Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.
Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.
The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.
80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.
Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
My beloved Elisa, my companion and wife, whom I love and revere, is one of the most noble of our Heavenly Father's handmaidens.
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
There is no effect without a cause. Chiropractors adjust causes. Others treat effects.
Love is not always bed of roses. When its unfulfilled, it causes immense pain and anger.
If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth
For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.
Change means traveling in uncharted waters and this causes our securities to rise.
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
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