Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; fo…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed ✨ Essays Compensation
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