Deliberate with caution, but act with decision And yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.Charles Caleb Colton
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, 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 and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Time is the most indefinable yet paradoxical of things the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires.
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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
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Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer it dignifies meanness it magnifies littleness to what is contemptible, it gives authority to what is law, exaltation.
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