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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To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.
Joseph Story
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I feel like I've been very smart in the way that I carry myself and treat myself. I feel like my mom was a big part of that just because she's always let us make our own decisions, and we've known very much about the mistakes and the dangers already of whatever this Hollywood life may be.
Evan Ross
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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
Ernest Hemingway
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There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think we spent around six hours at my house, and then we played all these tunes of mine that have never found any version. And "Heaven Without a Gun" is one of them, and it struck him. If you can find a compadre who doesn't live in the literal world 'cos you're not always fighting to explain yourself to make sense, that maybe it's the dyslexia, maybe it's the dreamer, maybe it's the idea that grammar was not your foreplay - excuse me - see what I mean, your forte.
Kevin Drew
Broken Social Scene
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People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.
Alice Cooper
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
