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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of read more
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one.
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.
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.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one read more
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.
Men are blind in their own cause.
Men are blind in their own cause.
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, read more
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
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.
Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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.]
