“ Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism. ”
- William Gilmore Simms- Copy
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“ Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow. ”
- Nicholas Murray Butler- Copy
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“ We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. ”
- Earl Nightingale- Copy
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“ We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men. ”
- Frederick Douglas- Copy
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“ Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. ”
- Lawrence G. Lovasik- Copy
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“ Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do! ”
- Jane Taylor- Copy
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“ As long as we have an unjust society, like we do now, we will never have a loving society. If you don't treat people justly, how can you expect them to love you? ”
- Jane Elliot- Copy
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“ The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. ”
- Twyla Tharp- Copy
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“ Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery. ”
- C. C. Colton- Copy
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“ The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ He has showed you… what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. ”
- The Bible- Copy
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“ A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is — I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at — a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
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“ Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within it bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. ”
- Andrew Hamilton- Copy
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“ The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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