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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Benjamin Cardozo

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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 prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Balance Fairness Justice

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