Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
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Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.
Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.
And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered.
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.
What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare the Infinite, it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of effects than to produce the effects themselves.
Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.
We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.
And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.
I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.
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