Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.
Women's quarrels cause the men's wars.
I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
The air was cool and soft. The desert looked empty from our great height, enough to believe the geographers and travel writers who tell of the terrible desert life, the stillness, harshness, and death. I lay against the cold sand, tiny grains dancing...
Many people who have an interest in politics feel they should proclaim—loudly, and at any given time—what their views are and why the “other side” is wrong. These proclamations appear in many forms, from scathing letters to the editor to frot...
Gavin stood within the trees, observing her from the shadows. He watched the basket rise to her nose as she closed her eyes to sniff at its contents. A smile told him it smelled delicious, but she didn’t open the container to pinch off a sample. In...
Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening in me and I entered the clarity of early morning. One after another my former lives were departing, like ships, together with their sorrow. And the countries, cities, garde...
Light is shallow; darkness is infinitely deep. Light is always bounded, it has boundaries. Darkness has no boundaries, it is unbounded. Light comes and goes; darkness always is. When there is light you cannot see it. When light is not there you can s...
Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda, conditioning. If people had the ...
Even a small thorn causes festering.
By pride one causes virtue to decline.
I'd sell my soul for a good cause.
Love is the cause of pain.. And pain is the cause of DEATH !
The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not knowing these things are results, not causes. Results, not causes; results, not causes.
Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Education is such a noble profession, it's a wonderful way to serve.
