"Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect."
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"All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning."
"From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions."
"Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried."
"Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect."
"The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect."
"In a false person, sacraments do not produce any effect."
"The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it."
"That which achieves its effect by accident is not art."
"The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic."
"Everything has a cause."
"There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future."
"Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing."
"The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion."
"Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced."
"No effect of work can be eternal."
"As the cause is, so the effect will be."
"Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers."
"The highest purpose in this universe is the creation of an effect."
"Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect."