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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.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Games Struggle Truth

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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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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