“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.”
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.
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“We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
(1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.
“So, march away; and let due praise be given
Neither to fate nor fortune, but to Heaven.”
Ferneze, Act V
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
Jeane Kirkpatrick
(1926–2006) American diplomat and Presidential advisor
Legitimacy and Force (1988), 130.
Jeane Kirkpatrick talking about a report of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, which she termed "a letter to Santa Claus." as in A Human Rights Approach to Food and Nutrition Policies and Programmes by Peter L. Pellett http://www.unsystem.org/SCN/archives/scnnews18/ch06.htm, who quotes The Hypocrisy Of It All by Noam Chomsky (1999) http://www.middleeast.org/archives/1999_01_25.htm
“There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.”
Robert G. Ingersoll
(1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"The Christian Religion" The North American Review, August 1881 http://books.google.com/books?id=OPmfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+are+in+nature+neither+rewards+nor+punishments+there+are+consequences%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=nora&cc=nora&view=image&seq=121&idno=nora0133-2
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We must remember that in nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences. The life and death of Christ do not constitute an atonement. They are worth the example, the moral force, the heroism of benevolence, and in so far as the life of Christ produces emulation in the direction of goodness, it has been of value to mankind.
As published in Some Reasons Why (1895) http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/some_reasons_why.html
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.
Letters and Essays, 3rd Series. Some Reasons Why, viii.
Source: The Christian Religion An Enquiry
Context: There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences. The life of Christ is worth its example, its moral force, its heroism of benevolence.
Thomas Sowell
(1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Source: Discriminations and Disparities (2018), p. 17.
“[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.”
"A Devil's Chaplain"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences," Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, February 1960, final sentence.
Edward Gibbon
(1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament
Vol. 1, Chap. 71.
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 1 (1776)
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now