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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.
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.]
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.
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.
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.
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.]
Great causes and little men go ill together.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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.
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.
