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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
Neither praise or 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
These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant. -- John Milton
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
Take care that no one hates you justly. -- Publilius Syrus
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. -- William Hazlitt
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. -- Thomas Carlyle
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? -- Lord Byron
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. -- William Penn
It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards. -- Eamon de Valera
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. -- Honore de Balzac
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
As you may know, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, or MCC, awards grants only to countries which rule justly, promote economic freedom, and invest in their people. -- Benigno Aquino III
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age. -- George Edward Woodberry
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
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
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. -- Louis D. Brandeis
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
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life. -- Epicurus
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. -- Ambrose Bierce
With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. -- John Strachan
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny. -- Frances Wright
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor. -- Edward Everett
The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse. -- Dorothea Dix
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances. -- Levi Woodbury
Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits. -- James P. Hoffa
Weight justly and sell dearely. -- George Herbert
An honest man nearly always thinks justly. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thanks are justly due for boons unbought -- Ovid
Karma doesn't mean that everything works out justly. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Karma doesn't mean that everything works out justly. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden -- Karl Kraus
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing. -- Socrates
To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing. -- Socrates
He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith. -- Robert Boyle
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases, -- Louis D. Brandeis
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader. -- Benjamin Tucker
Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right. -- Shannon Hale
The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth. -- Samuel Johnson
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly. -- Jerry Bridges
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly. -- Benjamin Franklin
The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war. -- Walter Raleigh
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty. -- Fanny Burney
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. -- Thomas Browne
Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.] -- Ovid
Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day. -- Marcus Aurelius
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. -- Charles Darwin
We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them. -- Max Beerbohm
must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely. -- Thomas Reid
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout. -- A. E. Housman
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. -- John Locke
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin. -- Seneca the Younger
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. -- Leo Tolstoy
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. -- Francis Bacon
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. -- James Madison
He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just. -- Seneca the Younger
striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm. -- Marcus Aurelius
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly. -- Pope John Paul II
Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly. -- Marcus Aurelius
Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward. -- Horace
I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them. -- Sarah Moore Grimke
How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty? -- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis
But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann. -- Joseph Priestley
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently. -- Benjamin Franklin
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption -- Samuel Johnson
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. -- John Dryden
Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly. -- Joanna Russ
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. -- Samuel Johnson
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly. -- Max Lucado
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! -- William Cowper
We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering. -- Emily Bronte
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press. -- Samuel
You must first of all think justly. Don't sit in judgment over others when you don't know the truth of the matter. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave. -- Frances M. Beal
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic ... -- Joseph Story
We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us. -- John Tillotson
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. -- Robert A. Burton
For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds. -- William Hazlitt
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 Douglass
But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America. -- Gerrit Smith
A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. -- John Milton
In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right. -- Paul Ryan
You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear. -- Sophocles
The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy. -- Omar Khayyam
[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society. -- William Blackstone
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
There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.' -- Wayne D. Dosick
I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives. -- George W. Bush
As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can... -- Thomas Carlyle
Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct? -- Honore de Balzac
Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness. -- Lord Chesterfield
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts. -- Charles William Eliot
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life. -- Alex Kozinski
We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's. -- William Law
Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small. -- William Penn
No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out. -- P. G. Wodehouse
An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. This is what it means to be educated. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury -- John Mills
I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest. -- James E. Faust
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
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. -- James Madison
Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension. -- John Wallis
But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. -- Thucydides
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed. -- Samuel Johnson
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. -- Henry James
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world. -- Konrad Lorenz
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures. -- Blaise Pascal

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