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The universal principle of carnal persons is to be happy here. Their eyes are ever engaged upon and their desires ever thirsting after sensual satisfaction: "Who will show us any good?" And by consequence their main care is to obtain and secure temporal things, the materials of their happiness. The supernatural principle of a saint is to please God and enjoy His favor. As men believe they love, and as they love they live. William Bates

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