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Cause: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
No, no, he cannot long hold out these pangs; The incessant care and labour of his mind Hath wrought the mure, that should confine it in, So thin that life looks through and will break out.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 117.
O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night!— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 5. L. 23.
I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.— SHELLEY — Stanzas written in
Dejection, near Naples. Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; And every Grin, so merry, draws one out JOHN WOLCOTT (Peter Pindar)- Expostulatory Odes. Ode 15. And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.— HENRY KIRKE WHITE — Childhood. Pt. II. L. 17.
To legislate each duty, were to count Drops of a stream that issue from one fount. God gives, since all effects are in their cause, For narrow prescripts universal laws.— ABRAHAM COLES — The Evangel. P. 215.
To all facts there are laws, The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause. S. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Lucile. Pt. II. Canto III. St. 8. Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.— POPE — Epilogue to Satires. Dia. 2. L. 205.
Find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 101.
God befriend us, as our cause is just!— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 120.
Mine's not an idle cause.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 95.
Your cause doth strike my heart.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act I. Sc. 6. L. 118.
In bello parvis momentis magni casus intercedunt. In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.— CESAR — Bellum Gallicum. I. 21.
Causa latet: vis est notissima. The cause is hidden, but the result is known.— OVID — Metamorphoses. IV. 287.
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.— VIRGIL — Georgica. II. 490.