The student must remember, for his consolation†that his failures are almost as important to the cause of scienceand tothosewhofollow himinthesameroad, as his successes. It is much to know what we cannot do in any given directionöthe first step, indeed, toward the accomplishment of what we can do.

-Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe)
  Geological Sketches.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne orhigh heels, and onemust be prepared to suffer for it.

-Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold
  The Title, act1.

Therefore if any man can shew any just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Marriage, Exhortation.

Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 25.

'I'll be judge, I'll be jury,'said cunning old Fury; 'I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.'

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.3, 'A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale', told by the Dormouse.

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  Amours de Voyage, canto 5, pt.6.

Are we to be the Don Quixotes of Europeöto go about fighting foreverycausewhere we find that someonehas been wronged?

-Cobden, Richard
  Referring to the Crimean War, House of Commons, 22 Dec. Scottish  poet,   whose  best-known   lyric  'The   Flowers   of   the Forest'  commemorates   a   calamity   in   Ettrick   Forest.  Walter Scott was her prote¤   ge¤  .

Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.

-Cowper,William
  The Task, bk.6,'The Winter  Walk at Noon', l.223.

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery† Our cause is just, our union is perfect.

-Dickinson,John
  Declaration of reasons for taking up arms against Britain, 8  Jul, presented to Congress. Quoted in C  J Stille The Life and Times of John Dickinson (1891), ch.5.

   Nor one feeling of vengeance presumed to defile The cause, or the men, or the Emerald Isle.

-Drennan,William
  Erin, stanza 3.

He stood at bold defiance with his prince; Held up the buckler of the people's cause Against the crown, and skulked behind the laws.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.205^7.

Aux colonies, l'infrastructure e¤  conomique est e¤  galement une superstructure. La cause est conse¤  quence: on est riche parce que blanc, on est blanc parce que riche. In the colonies the economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich.

-Fanon, Frantz Omar
Les Damne¤  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.1,'Concerning Violence'.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
  Intruder in the Dust, ch.3.

and Ireally hopeno white person ever has causetowrite about me because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

-Giovanni,Nikki in full Yolande CorneliaGiovanni,Jr
  Black Judgement,'Nikki^Rosa'.

How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Traveller, l.429^30.

Humanbeings, intheirgenerous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of a lower moral quality than their own.

-Hardy,Thomas
  The Return of the Native, bk.6, ch.1.

It takes up no falling cause; fights no uphill battle; advocatesnogreat principle; holdsout a helping hand to no oppressed or obscure individual. It is 'ever strong upon the stronger side'.

-Hazlitt,William
  Of  The Times. In the Edinburgh Review, May.

Historians spend their lives and lavish ink Explaining how great commonwealths collapse From great defects of policyöperhaps The cause is sometimes simpler than they think. † Have more states perished, then, For having shackled the enquiring mind, Than those who, in their folly not less blind, Trusted the servile womb to breed free men?

-Hope, A(lec) D(erwent)
  'Advice toYoung Ladies', in Collected Poems1930^1970 (1972).

   We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have been always conjoined together, and whichinall past instanceshavebeenfound inseparable.

-Hume, David
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.3, section 6.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or unjustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. 444

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,15  Aug. Quoted in James Boswell The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785).