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Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
[Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere read more
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
[Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.]
Mad let us grant him them, and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect--
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Mad let us grant him them, and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect--
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.
Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
Men are blind in their own cause.
Men are blind in their own cause.
To all facts there are laws,
The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.
To all facts there are laws,
The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.
Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless read more
Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
[Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
[Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether read more
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.