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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: A Poem to His Majesty (l. 21)
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Cruel and cold is the judgment of man,
Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow;
But by-and-by will the deed and the plan
Be judged by the motive that lieth below.
Author: Lewis J. Bates
Source: By-and-By
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Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Author: Bible
Source: Daniel (ch. V, v. 27)
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Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly
deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in
the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their
skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their
secrets.
Author: Bidpai (Pilpay)
Source: The Two Travellers (chap. ii, fable vi)
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Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry,
Safe in the inner fold;
And maybe they hear, and wonder why,
And marvel, out in the cold.
Author: Richard Eugene Burton
Source: Black Sheep
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My friend, judge not me,
Thou seest I judge not thee;
Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,
Mercy I askt, mercy I found.
Author: William Camden
Source: Remaines Concerning Britaine (1637, p. 392), quoted by Dr. Hill on epitaph to a man killed by a fall
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's
judgment.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Mirabeau
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We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the
process by which results are arrived at.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. VII, ch. II)
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In other men we faults may spy,
And blame the mote that dims their eye;
Each little speck and blemish find,
To our own stronger errors blind.
Author: John Gay
Source: The Turkey and the Ant (pt. I, l. 1)
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So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
Author: John Gay
Source: The What D'ye Call It (act II, sc. 9)
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Author: Patrick Henry
Source: Speech in the Virginia Convention
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Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours.
[Lat., Demens
Judicio vulgi, sanus fortasse tuo.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (bk. I, 6, 97)
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With thumb turned.
[Lat., Verso pollice.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (III, 36)
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What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
of the undertaking and the accomplishment of your wish?
[Lat., Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te conatus non poeniteat
votique peracti?]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (X, 5)
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We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of
judgment.
[Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de l'esprit; mais on ne
l'est jamais avec du jugement.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maximes (456)
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is
capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.
Author: John Locke
Source: Human Understanding (bk. II, ch. XXI)
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already done.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Kavanagh (ch. I)
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Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Kavanagh (ch. I)
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Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be
right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Author: Sir James Mansfield
Source: Advice
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When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy summoning archangels to proclaim
Thy dread tribunal.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 323)
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There written all
Black as the damning drops that fall
From the denouncing Angel's pen,
Ere Mercy weeps them out again.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (st. 28)
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'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 9)
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For every event is a judgment of God.
[Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Wallenstein's Tod (I, 7, 32)
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Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a
Man for something in him we cannot abide.
Author: John Selden
Source: Table Talk--Judgments
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For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which
is the proper judge of the man.
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Of a Happy Life (ch. I), (L'Estrange's Abstract)
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