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Consequences

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. – TS (Thomas Stearns) 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

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. – Thomas Henry Huxley

There are no rewards or punishments — only consequences. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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

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