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“It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.”

World Way Hard Pleasure This World Terrible Consequence Endure Painful Rings Attractive Pleasant Sensations Contemplating Worms Scratches Itching

Author:Ramakrishna

“The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.”

“In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.”

World Wells Opportunity Pieces One Thing Mankind This World Consequence Welfare

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren't much in the world, how do you know you are "out of this world"?”

Ifs Knows World Self Loses This World Consequence Do You Know Awkward Transcendence

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.”

World Mind Done Action Acting This World Consequence Self Confidence Hesitation Make Up Your Mind Natural Consequences

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“From living in my own little secluded hell in this world, oblivious to the world around me, I found sanctuary with the bears, where I had made peace with myself of the consequences I have allowed while living in society.”

World Littles Made Found My Own Hell This World Bears Consequence Sanctuary Oblivious Secluded

Author:Timothy Treadwell

“You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.”

Ifs World Inspirational Can Do This World Positive Thinking Consequence Prepared Human Bondage

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.”

World Done Jesus Sin This World Bears Consequence Crosses Thieves

Book:Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection

Source: Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?”

People World Believe Matter Done This World Consequence Holmes Study In Scarlet

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there.”

Knows Men World Believe Said Order Blood This World Consequence

Book:The Border Trilogy

Source: The Border Trilogy

“So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.”

World Two Causes Conditions This World Duty Consequence Tea Arrangements Pennies Inscrutable

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.”

World Two Next Loss This World Bears Consequence Tragedy Shock Fabric Ripple Cushions Great Tragedy

Book:Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound

Source: Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound

“In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.”

World Book Belief Saws This World Consequence Garden Foolish Deceit Serpent

Author:Libba Bray