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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
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
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
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom

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

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