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law judging gold
For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws. Samuel Johnson
language pedigree nations
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
law definitions maxims
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
law firsts reason
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.
law world may
we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next. Sarah Orne Jewett
lakes wind tree
The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake. Wallace Stevens
lasts illusion disillusion
Disillusion is the last illusion.
law broken needs
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. Vittorio Alfieri
language found accents
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. Vivien Leigh
laughing people cry
It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
latin years jupiter
If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years. Virgil
latin race found
What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.
latin mind
Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?
latin philosophical men
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
latin no-hope written
Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...
latin favors fortune
Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
lasting-happiness profound gains
The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness. Vincent Nichols
laughing people want
I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at. William Hung
law reform banking
One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic. William Howard Taft
law government work-out
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
law administration action
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
law presidential important
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
land rivers water
They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it. Willa Cather
land
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land. Washington Irving
labels helping genre
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. Walter Jon Williams
law liberty degradation
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate. Walter Lippmann
law devil journalism
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.
law race conquer
Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race... Voltaire
law lost ruined
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
law tyrants support
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
law errors tolerance
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.
law opinion cry
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
law want lawyer
If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.