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I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

—Herbert, George

Be just, my lovely swain, and do not take Freedoms you'll not to me allow; Or give Amynta so much freedom back That she may rove as well as you. Let us then love upon the honest square, Since interest neither have designed. For the sly gamester, who ne'er plays me fair, Must trick for trick expect to find.

—Behan, Brendan Francis

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery† Our cause is just, our union is perfect.

—Dickinson,John

   Give it because it isright.Give it because it is just.Give it because it isgood for Ireland and good for the United Kingdom.Give it because it brings peace and good will, but do not give it because you are bullied byassassins.

—Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl

With what nice care equivalents are given, How just, how bountiful, the hand of Heaven.

—Wordsworth,William

Amid the wreck and the misery of nations it is our just exaltation that we have continued superior to all that ambition or despotism could effect; and our still higher exaltation ought to be that we provide not only for our own safety but hold out a prospect for nations now bending under the yoke of tyranny of what the exertions of a free people can effect.

—Pitt,William known as  theYounger

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movementöbut it passes away from them.They are not the leaders of a revolution. Theyare its victims.

—Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra

The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise: but man Passionless?öno, yet free from guilt or pain, Which were, for his will made or suffered them, Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.

—Plato

The just shall live by faith.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   I would rather be British than just.

—Paisley, Ian

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

—Bible (Old Testament)

On dirait que l'a"  me des justes donne, comme les fleurs, plus de parfums vers le soir. It seems that the soul of the just gives off, like flowers, a stronger scent towards evening.

—Stae«  l, Germaine Necker, Baronne de

   Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.

—Tennyson

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, thinkon these things.

—Bible (NewTestament)