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Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of angels. — Boufflers.

Jesting.

Jests - Brain fleas that jump about among the slumbering ideas. — Heinrich Heine.

The jest loses its point when the wit is the first to laugh. - Schiller.

And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of other's memory. - Bacon.

Jewelry. Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous. - Douglas Jerrold.

Jews. Talk what you will of the Jews; that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come ; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why Christians hate one another as much. Selden.

They are a piece of stubborn antiquity, compared with which Stonehenge is in its nonage. They date beyond the Pyramids. — Lamb.

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Joy. The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy. - Pope.

Worldly joy is like the songs which peasants sing, full of melodies and sweet airs. Beecher.

Redundant joy, like a poor miser, beggar'd by his store. Young.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. Bulwer-Lytton.

Joy is the best of wine. - George Eliot.

Joy in this world is like a rainbow, which in the morning only appears in the west, or towards the evening sky; but in the latter hours of day casts its triumphal arch over the east, or morning sky. — Richter.

Judgment. The more one judges, the less one loves. Balzac.

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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

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Judgment and reason have been grand jurymen since before Noah was a sailor. - Shakespeare.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others. Goethe.

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In judging of others a man laboreth in vain, often erreth, and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully. Thomas à Kempis.

I have seen, when after execution judgment hath repented o'er his doom. Shakespeare.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice, but an accident alone, here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death! Carlyle.

Human judgment, like Luther's drunken peasant, when saved from falling on one side, topples over on the other. Mazzini.

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The contemporary mind may in rare cases be taken by storm; but posterity never. The tribunal of the present is accessible to influence; that of the future is incorrupt.

Gladstone.

Upon any given point, contradictory evidence seldom puzzles the man who has mastered the laws of evidence, but he knows little of the laws of evidence who has not studied the unwritten law of the human heart; and without this last knowledge a man of action will not attain to the practical, nor will a poet achieve the ideal. - Bulwer-Lytton.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. Southey. Justice.- It is the pleasure of the gods that what is in conformity with justice shall also be in conformity to the laws. Socrates.

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Justice delayed is justice denied. · Gladstone. Justice advances with such languid steps that crime often escapes from its slowness. Its tardy and doubtful course causes too many tears to be

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Justice is truth in action. - Joubert.

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us. Pope.

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Strike if you will, but hear. Themistocles.

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When Infinite Wisdom established the rule of right and honesty, He saw to it that justice should be always the highest expediency. — Wendell Phillips.

But Justice shines in smoky cottages, and honors the pious. Leaving with averted eyes the gorgeous glare obtained by polluted hands, she is wont to draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing wealth when falsely stamped with praise, and assigning each deed its righteous doom. Eschylus.

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Who shall put his finger on the work of justice, and say, "It is there?" Justice is like the kingdom of God-it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning. — George Eliot.

Justice claims what is due, polity what is seemly; justice weighs and decides, polity surveys and orders; justice refers to the individual, polity to the community. Goethe.

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Kindness. Yes! you may find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence. Sydney Smith.

Paradise is open to all kind hearts. - Béranger.

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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as - Pascal. they ought to be used.

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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. - Johnson.

To remind a man of a kindness conferred is little less than a reproach. Demosthenes.

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hair. O. Feuillet.

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them. Mme. de Staël.

Kings.-Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes told that their best way to become so is to make themselves beloved by the people. This maxim is doubtless a very admirable one, and in some respects true; but unhappily it is laughed at in court. Rousseau.

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Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort. -Patrick Henry.

A king ought not fall from the throne except with the throne itself; under its lofty ruins he alone finds an honored death and an honored tomb. Alfieri.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion. - Thomas Paine.

He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it. - Corneille.

Kings' titles commonly begin by force which time wears off, and mellows into right; and power which in one age is tyranny is ripened in the next to true succession. Dryden.

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Kisses. It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever. It preëxisted, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in it. Haliburton.

Dear as remembered kisses after death.

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Or leave a kiss but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine. Ben Jonson.

He kissed her and promised. Such beautiful lips! Man's usual fate — he was lost upon the coral reefs. Douglas Jerrold.

Eden revives in the first kiss of love.

- Byron.

You would think that, if our lips were made of horn, and stuck out a foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. No creatures kiss each other so much as birds. — Charles Buxton.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. George Eliot.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest. Leigh Hunt. Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. - BulwerLytton.

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, these are love's pretty ingredients for a

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Knavery. Unluckily the credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. They

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