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law knowing shy
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. Charles Dickens
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. Charles Caleb Colton
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
law land tree
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law would-be rays
You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot.
optimism doubt literature
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
optimism reversal seeds
Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal. Alan Greenspan
optimism imbalance financial
History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
optimism fundamentals
The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism. Chogyam Trungpa
optimism complacency pessimism
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. David Myers
optimism matter construction
Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence. Cesar Pelli
optimism people world
What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism. Madeleine Albright
optimism pessimism pessimist
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Arnold Bennett
optimism important
What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership. Bob Iger
triumph chance
Wisdom triumphs over chance. Juvenal
triumph conquer poet
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. Abraham Cowley
triumph habit
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. Clive James
triumph defeat what-is-life
What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power? Ameen Rihani
triumph world unnecessary
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary David Byrne
triumph endure difficult
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once. Gabrielle Roy
triumph helping conquest
Triumph cannot help being cruel. Jose Ortega y Gasset
triumph exhausted poland
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph. Henryk Sienkiewicz
triumph genius common
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe