Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes to Explore
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The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
Rand Paul
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
Albert Einstein
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
Albert Einstein
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The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
C. P. Scott
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In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
Zachary Taylor
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
Napoleon Hill
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Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
Betty Ford
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Duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.
Colleen McCullough
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Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
Douglas Jerrold
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.
Max Jacob
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I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.
William Carey
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I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
Orson Welles
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How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.
William H. Gass
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When I wrote the first album I had never played live before, and I'd never been on tour. So that was really just me and my guitar.
Amy Macdonald
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
