A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.
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The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.. The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.
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It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for the country in return.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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The interpretation of constitutional principles must not be too literal. We must remember that the machinery of government would not work if it were not allowed a little play in its joints.
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