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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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 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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
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
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
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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Long Running Swim
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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk

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