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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
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
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 heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom

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