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Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless read more
Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
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.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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.
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.
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.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great 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.
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.]
