William Shakespeare Quotes About Justice
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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
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Justice always whirls in equal measure.
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The quality of mercy is not strained
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They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor
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Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
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Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.
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The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
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Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.
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I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.
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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
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I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.
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The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them, but abound In the division of each several crime, Acting in many ways.
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Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.
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Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
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Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice.
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The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
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Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.
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A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
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Be just, and fear not.
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Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
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