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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Dickens
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. Charles Dickens
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot. Charles Dickens
pits causes lost
The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave. Beth Moore
pits world born
I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits. Daniel Woodrell
pits fruit reason
That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits. Andy Warhol
pits life-is cherries
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? Erma Bombeck
pits hollywood different
I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things. Jeff Conaway
pits prophet precedence
Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence. Ezra Taft Benson
pits world littles
When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it. Ken Hutcherson
pits charity dollars
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar. Phil Donahue
pits matter no-matter-what
No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out. Joyce Meyer