“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”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The ends justifies the means”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.”
Bible
“Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“As the apple is not the cause of the apple tree, but a fruit of it: even so good works are not the cause of our salvation, but a sign and fruit of the same.”
Daniel Cawdray
“For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.”
“When thou hast gotten a fruitful possession through all the field, sow it with thine own seed, trusting in the goodness of thy stock.”
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