“That trial is not fair where affection is judge”
Thomas Fuller
“Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.”
Lawrence G. Lovasik
“Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgement for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as”
Thomas Carlyle
“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.”
Abraham Lincoln
“He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.”
Voltaire
“(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?'Mae West: 'On the contrary, your Honor, I was doin' my best to conceal it.'”
Mae West
“The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; / To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; / To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; / To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.”
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