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- When the judgement's weak,
The prejudice is strong. - Kane O'Hara
- He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.
- Book of Common Prayer
- Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.
- Elisha Potter
- The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The conscience of a people is their power.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.
- Sir William Draper
- I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
- Nathaniel Emmons
- The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
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