Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Bronte
"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."
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Emma
by
Jane Austen
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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The Fellowship of the Ring
by
J. R. R. Tolkien
I am I, and I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.
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Martin Eden
by
Jack London
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
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The Great Gatsby
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde
"Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."
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The Portrait of a Lady
by
Henry James
Now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
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Robinson Crusoe
by
Daniel Defoe
"This has nothing to do with will-power; that's a crazy, useless word, anyway; you lack judgment--the judgment to decide at once when you know your imagination will play you false, given half a chance."
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This Side of Paradise
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge."
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Uncle Silas
by
J. Sheridan Le Fanu