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 For every event is a judgment of God.
 [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.]  
 For every event is a judgment of God.
 [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.] 
 On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
 And from your judgment must expect my fate.  
 On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
 And from your judgment must expect my fate. 
 We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of 
judgment.
 [Fr., On est quelquefois un sot read more 
 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.] 
 With thumb turned.
 [Lat., Verso pollice.]  
 With thumb turned.
 [Lat., Verso pollice.] 
 Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly 
deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious read more 
 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. 
 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
 Go just alike, yet each believes his own.  
 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
 Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 
 In other men we faults may spy,
 And blame the mote that dims their eye;
  Each little read more 
 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. 
 There written all
 Black as the damning drops that fall
  From the denouncing Angel's pen,
  read more 
 There written all
 Black as the damning drops that fall
  From the denouncing Angel's pen,
   Ere Mercy weeps them out again. 
Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.
Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.