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"But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning."
"The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong."
"It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it"
"A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it."
"The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts."
"Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental."
"Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature."
"A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal."
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
"Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue."
"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."
"History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS"
"You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know."
"Don't judge. Don't stay inside all the time. Get out and let somebody know who you are."
"We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them."
"If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection."
"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees."
"Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy."
"I think we’re part of a greater wisdom that we will ever understand; a higher order, call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all. It just is."
"We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly."
