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To all facts there are laws, The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.

The cause is hidden, but the result is known.

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart With pity that doth make me sick.

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.

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!

Mine's not an idle cause.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one.

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.

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.

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.

No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.

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.

Men are blind in their own cause.

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.

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

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 body, to risk his life, in a great cause.