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• A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Art, Men, Abuse

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• Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows how to govern everything concerning us. Nothing is impossible for Him, but everything is subject to His will. We must also realize that everything He does is for our benefit and we must accept it with thankfulness...as from a benefactor and a good lord even if is troublesome. For everything is done with right judgment, and God, Who is merciful, does not overlook even the smallest sadness that we suffer.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Sadness, Compassion, Words Of Wisdom

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• We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Taken, Risk, Criminals

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• Is it more important to make sure that you have another Clinton or a woman in the White House than it is to have somebody who is a morally sound character and judgment?

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Character, White, House

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Silence, Speech, Verdict

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5034, Delphi Classics

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• Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strong, Memories, Weak

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• Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sleep, Eye, Habit

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.80, Stanford University Press

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• Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Victory, Desire

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 6.

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• A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

  Pliny the Elder

  Reflection, Buyers, Dear

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• How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

  Pietro Metastasio

  Errors, Ignorant, Wonder

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• Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Taste And Judgment, Speak, Microscopes

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• Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Confidence, Self, Realization

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• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Eye, Imagination

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• The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Solitude, Loner, May

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air, People

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.333

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• I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Faults, Knows

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, Edmond Malone (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.165

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• To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Judging, Office

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.70

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• So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Sea, Judging

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.362

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• This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

  Joseph Addison

  Party, Moral, Spirit

  Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.170

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• It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

  Mark Twain

  Failure, Secret, Persons

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public.

  George Carlin

  Believe, Worry, Comedian

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.

  William Hazlitt

  Voice, Echoes, Firsts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Moon, Light

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• There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hate, Two, Giving

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• Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.

  George Washington

  Heart, Mean, May

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.504

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