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Duty |
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| "Without duty, life is soft and
boneless." |
| -- Joseph Joubert |
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| "What's man's first duty? The answer is
brief: To be himself." |
| -- Henry Ibsen |
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| "If you want to do your duty properly, you
should do just a little more than that." |
| -- Bruce Lee (1940-73), Martial arts actor |
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| "The reward of one duty is the power to
fulfill another." |
| -- George Eliot (1819 - 1880) |
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| "When one's ill or unhappy, one needs
something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I
think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance to have some
external job or duty to hang on to." |
| -- Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British
writer |
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| "Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a
necessity, or even a duty."
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| -- Simone Weil |
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| "Do something every day
that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the
habit of doing your duty without pain." |
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--
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
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| "It is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you
as when they are shooting at you. |
| -- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924),
American President |
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| "Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." |
| -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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| "A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an
entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his
conscious and his sense of duty." |
| -- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904) |
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| "Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You
should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you
should never wish to do less." |
| -- Robert E. Lee, American general and educator |
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| "Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity
to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm
of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
community to which your later work belongs."
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| -- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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| "The first duty of love is to listen." |
| -- Paul Tillich |
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| "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he
always declares that it is his duty." |
| -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) |
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| "I looked on child rearing not only as a
work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as
interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world
and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it." |
| -- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (b. 1890), Family
matriarch |
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| "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." |
| -- Abbie Hoffman |
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| "How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always
by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what
you amount to." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) |
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| "Where it is duty to worship the sun, it
is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat." |
| -- John Morley (1838-1923), British politician |
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| "The strongest is never strong enough to
be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and
obedience into duty." |
| -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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| "Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee!
Thy second duty will already have become clearer." |
| -- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) |
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| "The moment we indulge our affections, the
earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all
tragedies, all ennuis, vanish-- all duties even." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American
writer, |
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