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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
innocent-person justice long
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. Benjamin Franklin
innocent-person murder human-nature
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things. Agatha Christie
innocent-person innocent persons
No innocent person ever has an alibi. Agatha Christie
innocent-person people killing
The killing of innocent people is always wrong. Bianca Jagger
innocent-person people police
An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance. Benjamin Crump
innocent-person machines faces
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face. May Sarton
innocent-person enemy tragedy
The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies. Joseph Addison
innocent-person punishment people
Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder. Tony Goldwyn
perfect gentleman intimacy
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank. Charles Caleb Colton
perfect religion nuisance
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. Charles Dickens
perfect may matter
No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back. Charles Stanley
perfect waiting heaven
If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself. Charles Spurgeon
perfect glory burden
Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God. Charles Spurgeon
perfect judgement world
In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. Alanis Morissette
perfection technique invisible
If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible. Alan Chadwick
perfect perfect-love knows
Perfect love knows no because Aiden Wilson Tozer
perfect form
Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being? Chogyam Trungpa