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Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.493
Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.