William Shakespeare on Justice
1564–1616 England
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Heaven is above all yet, there sits a judge,
That no king can corrupt.
'Tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you gave me nothing for 't.
To offend, and judge, are distinct offices
And of opposed natures.
There shall be done
A deed of dreadful note.
He shall have merely justice and his bond.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
There is more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid her than she'll demand.
Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
Use every man after his desert, and who should
'Scape whipping!
We have strict statutes and most biting laws.
No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize.
Still you keep o' the windy side of the law.
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.
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