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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Finding Illusion Mind Peace
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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Judging Men Tides
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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Law Limitation Running
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Honesty Honor Sensitive
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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Issue Judicial Raise Sysdtem
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

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