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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.
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.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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.
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.]
Great causes and little men go ill together.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, read more
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
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.
