"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."

-- Alexander Pope

#Spring Quotes #Judging Quotes #Causes Quotes

“Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.”
“The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.”

Source : Elizabeth Prentiss (1871). “Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'.”, p.235
“The more I simplify my life, the happier I feel.”
“It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.”
“Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud.”

Source : 'The Pleasures of Imagination' (1744) bk. 2, l. 103
“Give life meaning through your commitments.”
“What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.”
“Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.”

Source : Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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