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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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
