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- Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
- Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
- Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
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