Best spring & causes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.”

May Action Courses Causes Virtue Effects Judging Source Spring Mere Deeds Smallest Spring May

Author:Alexander Pope

“Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.”

Causes Spring Fierce Petty Ardent Contention

Book:The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

“From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.”

Men Trying Firsts May Pain Names Causes Powerful Spring Weakness Gains Love Life Trash Quackery

Book:The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

Source: The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

“All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.”

Ifs Body Eye Lying Asks Causes Walking Spring Sitting Dust Intimate Visible Grain Dharma Treasury Lying Down

Author:Dogen

“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.”

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.”

Courses Causes Results Behinds Mankind Scene Summer Spring Illusion Winter Deeper Convinced Thoughtful Autumn Portions Shifting Rite Alterations Summer And Winter

Author:James G. Frazer

“Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.”

Done Suffering Evil Causes Events Spring Flow

Book:Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds

Source: Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds

“The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.”

Heart Courses Causes Christianity Spring Evidence Argument Remove Infidelity Lectures

Book:Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity

Source: Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity

“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.”

Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

“Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.”

Feelings Earth Heaven Causes Kindness Effects Produce Spring Rain Ice Gentle Beneficial Covering Beam Spring Rain

Book:Hertha

Source: Hertha

“...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith in the future renders us receptive to change.”

Seems Causes Differences Attitude Spring Conservative Radical Receptive Fear Of The Future

Book:The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.”

Humans Heart Heaven Causes Tears Spring Seeds Showers Human Heart

Author:Walter Scott

“Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.”

Thinking Causes Imagination Support Sadness Disease Spring Defined Poison Gloom Vexation

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.”

Ifs Inspirational Doe Christian Causes Religious Sin Spring Roots Orthodox

Author:Saint Basil

“I'd like to sing you a song now about my old girlfriend. It's called "They'll Find Her When the Leaves Blow Away 'Cause I'm Not Raking 'Til Spring."”

Humor Funny Song Causes Spring Blow Girlfriend Old Girlfriend

Author:Steven Wright

“Sometimes I get mad when I think that I only have maybe 40 or 50 more springs in New York. When I miss one, 'cause I'm on location for a film, I wanna go, 'That's it, that just cost me one of my 50!'”

Thinking Sometimes Film Causes Missing New York Cost Spring Mad Location

Author:Topher Grace

“All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.”

Years Kind Children I Can Two Shows Kids Next Found Causes Watches Violence Feet Tvs Spring Bottom Violent All Kinds Giants Copies Episodes Runners Cartoon Next Day Canyons Coyotes Road Runner

Author:Norm MacDonald

“For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.”

Men World Ideas Causes Ignorance Spring

Book:The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates

Source: The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates

“What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.”

Causes Spring Contests Offence Amorous Trivial Things

Author:Alexander Pope

“American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.”

Source: How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

“Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.”

World Needs Years Done Force Causes Violence Victory Spring Army Misery Resistance Conquer Thorns Conquer The World Great Victory

Author:Laozi

“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of ⟨the present⟩ age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind.”

Christian Religion Fighting Causes Religious Atheism Spring Hatred Productive Enlightened Controversy Acrimony

Author:George Washington

“The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.”

Men Past Purpose Causes Born Eternal Spring Election Believer Chosen Internals Adam Sovereign Everlasting Jacob Foreseen Purpose Of God Future Happiness

Author:Thomas Brooks

“[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach us to be done by God: no more, than to say, That the balance of a Watch is moved by the next Wheel, is to deny that Wheel, and the rest, to be moved by the Spring; and that both the Spring, and all the other Parts, are caused to move together by the Maker of them. So God may be truly the Cause of This Effect, although a Thousand other Causes should be supposed to intervene: For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.”

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