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Great causes and little men go ill together.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
 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.] 
 Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
 For, on their answer, will we set on them,
  And read more 
 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! 
 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 man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his read more
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
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.
 O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart
 With pity that doth make me sick.  
 O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart
 With pity that doth make me sick. 
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.