"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."

Cause, Martyr, Punishment

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"They never fail who die in a great cause."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Cause, Fire, Pain

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

William James, American Philosopher

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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Cause, Effect, Change, History

"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Cause, Truth, Power, Life, Regret

"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Cause, Purity, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Cause, Now, Trouble

"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Anger, Love, Fear, Jealousy

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

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"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"

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"The purpose of all wars, is peace."

Peace, Purpose

"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."

Being, Desire, First, Humility

"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."

Forgiveness, Being

"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."

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"They never fail who die in a great cause."

"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."

"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."

"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."

"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."

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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

"Punishment is justice for the unjust."

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"

"The purpose of all wars, is peace."

"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."

"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."

"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."