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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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
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
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
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
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
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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law

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