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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 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.
Men are blind in their own cause.
Men are blind in their own cause.
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 little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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!
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
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.]
