If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
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 the cause of a dog [who pursues it].
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 the cause triumphs.
To believe that is we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.
How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place ensigned Our own felicity we make or find.
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.
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.
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.
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
Risk If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump. If he doesnt know how wide it is hell jump and six times out of ten hell make it.
The present contains nothing more than the past and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Deliberate with caution but act with decision; And yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
The cautious seldom err.
Haste makes waste.
How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Mens minds perceive second causes But only prophets perceive the action of the First Cause.
It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Slow and steady wins the race.
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 the cause of a dog [who pursues it].
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked but to be ineptly defended.
Dont take the bull by the horns take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of error.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket!
Among mortals second thoughts are the wisest.
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 the cause triumphs.
If you and your lips would keep from slips Of five things have a care: To whom you speak of whom you speak And how and when and where.
To believe that is we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place ensigned Our own felicity we make or find.
I prefer the sign NO ENTRY to the one that says NO EXIT.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No cause is hopeless if it is just. Errors no matter how popular carry the seeds of their own destruction.
Hasten slowly. Festina lente.
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
Risk If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is he will not jump. If he doesnt know how wide it is hell jump and six times out of ten hell make it.