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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."

"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."
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"I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend."

"The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace."

"All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit."

"The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh."

"The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it."

"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."

"In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim."
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