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

Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
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Justice Mind Ordinary
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
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
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
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
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
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
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
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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Equality Erosion Liberty
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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

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