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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Benjamin Cardozo

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 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
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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Gain Honesty Men
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
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
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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

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