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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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Decision Justice Taken
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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Dark Mind Years
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege

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