Great causes and little men go ill together.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

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!

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.]

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.

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.]

Men are blind in their own cause.

Men are blind in their own 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.

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.

A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.

A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.