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The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
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
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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Dark Mind Years
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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 great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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Judging Men Tides
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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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Issue Judicial Raise Sysdtem
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes

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