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.

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.]

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.]

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.

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.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause read more

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
For, on their answer, will we set on them,
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Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
For, on their answer, will we set on them,
And God befriend us as our cause is just!

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.