"The essence of justice is mercy."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on justice   

"Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on vision   

"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on poetry and poets   

"Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on ostentation
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"Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on endurance   

"The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on opportunity
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"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on forgiveness
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"An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on age and aging   

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

Joubert, Joseph on imagination   

"Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another."

Joubert, Joseph on monuments   

"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."

Joubert, Joseph on spirituality
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"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."

Joubert, Joseph on books - reading
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"To teach is to learn twice."

Joubert, Joseph on teacher
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"Tenderness is the rest of passion."

Joubert, Joseph on tenderness   

"The hatred of relatives is the most violent."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on family
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"The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on fame
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"Greater things are believed of those who are absent."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on absence
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

King Jr. Martin Luther on justice
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"Justice is truth in action."

Disraeli, Benjamin on justice
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"The foundation of justice is good faith."

Cicero, Marcus T. on justice   

"Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality."

Blandford, Linda on justice   

"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on equality
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"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."

Bacon, Francis on justice
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"Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice."

Mcilvanney, William on law and lawyers   

"The more laws the less justice."

Proverb on law and lawyers   

"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on masses
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"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on peace
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"To get Peace you must work for Justice."

John Paul VI on peace
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"Conscience is the chamber of justice."

Origen on science   

"True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all."

Mansfield, Lord on justice   

"Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice."

Johnson, Samuel on revenge
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"When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe."

Burke, Edmund on freedom
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"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."

Cicero, Marcus T. on knowledge   

"One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer."

Proverb on prayer
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"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

Richter, Jean Paul on birthdays
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"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on courage   

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on courage
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"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on consequences   

"Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought..."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on visualization   

"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on science
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