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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Benjamin Cardozo

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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Long Running Swim
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Danger May Rescue
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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Example Hands Humility
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved

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