Consequences
» “There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.”
– Joseph Addison
» ”Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he’ll get good consequences; if they’re not, he’ll suffer for it.”
– Harry Browne
» ”A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.”
– Norman Cousins
» ”Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.”
– George Eliot
» ”For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.”
– T. S. Eliot
» ”All successful men have agreed in one thing — they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
» ”In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain — that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.”
– Georg Hegel
» ”Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
– Thomas H. Huxley
» ”There are no rewards or punishments — only consequences.”
– Dean William R. Inge
» ”In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll
» ”I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
» ”The Devil beget darkness; darkness beget ignorance; ignorance beget error and his brethren; error beget free-will and presumption; free-will beget works; works beget forgetfulness of God; forgetfulness beget transgression; transgression beget superstition; superstition beget satisfaction; satisfaction beget the mass-offering; the mass-offering beget the priest; the priest beget unbelief; unbelief beget hypocrisy; hypocrisy beget traffic in offerings for gain; traffic in offerings for gain beget Purgatory; Purgatory beget the annual solemn vigils; the annual vigils beget church-livings; church-livings beget avarice; avarice beget swelling superfluity; swelling superfluity beget fulness; fulness beget rage; rage beget license; license beget empire and domination; domination beget pomp; pomp beget ambition; ambition beget simony; simony beget the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.”
– Martin Luther
» ”Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.”
– Orison Swett Marden
» ”You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.”
– W. Somerset Maugham
» ”Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own failures and their own successes.”
– Lawson Purdy
» ”Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”
– George Bernard Shaw
» ”The consequences of an act affect the probability of it’s occurring again.”
– Burrhus Frederic Skinner
» ”It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
– Sir Josiah Stamp
» ”Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
» ”Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
» ”Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.”
– Jeremy Taylor
» ”It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.”
– Thomas Troward
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