"The essence of justice is mercy."

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"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy."

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"Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical."

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"Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair."

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"At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion."

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"Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies."

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"Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."

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"The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool."

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"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."

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"A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star."

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"An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven."

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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

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"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."

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"You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"God befriend us as our cause is just!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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